Flour soaked in molasses or sugar juice or milk-sugar mixed with different shapes of chickpeas or pieces of flour is sweet. Sweets are a very popular Bengali food. No Bengali event is complete without sweets. In Bangladesh, various well-known and expensive sweet-selling centers have developed sweets as advanced products. From the laddu of the earliest times to the sandesh and kalojam, today the variety of sweets has reached the stage of art. Different types of sweets taste different. Popular with small and large in size and even in naming and variation. Sweets are widely used in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. Sweets are widely used in social and family occasions. The amount of sweets that people use in all these regions is unmatched by any other country in the world.
Types of sweets
We notice different types of sweets in the market. All these sweets have different names and flavors. The sweets that are commonly seen in the market are-
- Rasgolla
- Rajbhog
- Blackberries
- Spoon
- Rasmalai
- Rasmalai
- Deadly
- Message
- Chickpeas
- Manda
- Buridan
- Motichur Laddu
- Amitti or Amriti
- Malayakari
- Raw golla
History of sweets in the Indian subcontinent
Laddu of Matichur is one of the oldest sweets in India. It has been around for over two thousand years. The age of modern Sandesh-Rasgolla is only 2 to 2.5 hundred years. Bengalis have learned to make puppies from the Portuguese. Bengali Moiras learn the techniques of making lamb and cheese from them. In 1498, Vasco da Gama arrived at the port of Calicut. He left India in 1503. Puppy-making education in the subcontinent is much later.
Sweet maker / sweet shop
A special kind of banana is to make sweets. Those who make sweets are called moira. Apart from the fame of area based sweets, many sweet artists have become famous personally for making special sweets.
Prohibition of eating sweets
People who are diabetic are forbidden by doctors to eat their sweet foods. However, such patients may be given small amounts of sweet or sugary foods when their glucose levels are too low.
The price of sweets in the current market
We see many kinds of sweets in the market. The value of all these sweets is-
|
Sponge sweet – 1 kg |
220 BDT |
|
Rasmalai- 1 kg |
400 BDT |
|
White rasgolla 1 kg |
220 BDT |
|
Rose jam 1 kg |
220 BDT |
|
1 kg of white chum chum |
320 BDT |
|
Black jam 1 kg |
220 BDT |
Conclusion
Sweet is a very favorite food of Bengalis. No kind of ceremony is complete without sweets. We see a lot of sweets. Each of them has a different taste and name. However, playing extra sweets can cause various problems. Doctors often tell patients to stay away from sweets.
