Long time since I made makha sandesh, cooked this one a bit more (maybe a bit too much elbow grease) and it's smoothed out.
Sweetened with Dec 22 stash of #NolenGur (I have told you about that, yes?* )
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Attached: 4 images And the winter specialty in #Kolkata and #Bengal is date palm syrup (not date syrup, but the sap - as in maple syrup) and the boiled down sugar/jaggery from that used to sweeten. You can buy the #NolenGur or #JholaGur (liquid) in jars and the blocks/discs of patali gur or jaggery (pic1). Winter brings gur sweetened #sandesh - sweets made with sweetened chenna - fresh soft cheese - compressed and shaped in traditional conch and palm fruit shapes set out in trays (pics 2-4) but the best (next)