Saturday, January 14, 2012

Chapatee Poem (Pulled Bread)








Make a good dough of flour and water, knead it well, after which take it in the hands and pull it for a considerable time ; then take a piece rather less than a tennis ball, and with thehands clap it till it is aboutan eighth of an inch thick, and bake on an iron plate, turning when one side is done.








From:  Twenty-Two Authentic Banquets From India (compiled by Robert Christie).  New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1975.  (An unabridged andunaltered republication of the Indian and Afghanistani sections of Banquets of theNations, published by J. and J. Gray and Co,St. James Press, 1911.)






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