Good morning Usha Di, I will do ask my mother if she has more of such nice stories.
Regards, surajit On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:02 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > wonderful to document these, thanks Surajit > ps collect such stories while you can.... treasure of a life time > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:19 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Usha Di, >> >> My mom says she and her friends used those entire leaves as dummy LUCHI >> for their dolls. My wife says she used to cut the leaves round with the >> help of a can-lid, you know small cans made from aluminium were used as >> packaging for 'zafrani zarda' or 'snuff' or even tooth-powder. Parthenium >> flowers or some others were cauliflower in their dream kitchen! Brick dust >> was chili-powder to them! >> >> Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Surajit >>> nice >>> how did they ever make luchi from these pata? please have your mom or >>> wife tell me. >>> >>> Luchi is known to the western world as PURI .. >>> people who go to indian restaurants either are served real puris (is >>> 3-4 inch in diameter) puris >>> or you must have seen those gimmicky 12 inch puffed puris.... nowadays >>> malls in India are also serving them... last year I saw these being served >>> in the food court in a couple of malls in Kolkata >>> >>> Usha di >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, surajit koley < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Sir, >>>> >>>> My mother played with this herb, my wife too, but my daughter didn't, >>>> for now-a-days they have barbie-sindy-leo-funskool.... god knows how many! >>>> This is a common herb which is often used in junior schools to demonstrate >>>> absorption & transportation of water in plants. >>>> >>>> Species : *Peperomia >>>> pellucida<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?400106> >>>> * (L.) Kunth >>>> Bengali name : LUCHI-PATA >>>> Habit & Habitat : common herb, prostrate-erect >>>> Date : 19/8/12, 12.01 P.M. >>>> Place : Hooghly >>>> site visited : >>>> >>>> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peperomia_pellucida >>>> 2. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Shiny%20Bush.html >>>> 3. >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/VDWIS2M4Wt8/discussion >>>> 4. >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/o5p8goX6ngY/discussion >>>> 5. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/25001099?projectid=9 >>>> >>>> In those older days, using its shiny leaves, girls cooked / prepared >>>> LUCHI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchi> (now, what is the English >>>> of LUCHI?) for their wooden dolls! >>>> >>>> Thank you & Regards, >>>> >>>> surajit >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > > > > --
