[www.keralites.net] BELGAUM - Famous sweet, the menu is not complete wit hout the ?Kunda? ? a name synonymous with Belgaum

 

BELGAUM - Famous sweet, the menu is not complete without the "Kunda" — a name synonymous with Belgaum.  It was about 60 years ago when a Rajasthani, Gajanan Mithaiwale, belonging to a Purohit family, discovered the sweet dish.

It so happened that his cook by oversight and negligence over-boiled the milk, eventually turning it into a dark brown paste.
The Jakku Marwadi (by which name Mithaiwale was known) was not willing to waste this paste and gave it a try.

He mixed some quantity of "khoa" (a milk paste and an essential ingredient in most of the sweets) and sugar to dilute.

He cooked it for some more time. For him, it was like Einstein's Eureka moment.

  

Although he did not shout "eureka", he had discovered a new sweet dish which tasted good. Not knowing what to name it, he uttered "Kunda".

Ever since, he started manufacturing "Kunda" on commercial scale.

Today, this sweet is popular among Indians across the globe.

There are over 200 families which make "Kunda" and sell it under the brand name of Purohit Kunda, but the leaders are Camp Purohit and Atul Purohit.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/the-discovery-of-belgaums-kunda/article517701.ece

 

Ravi

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