Folks, we are in for a real Christmas treat. A delicious memoir piece written by Reena Martins reminisces on the Christmas traditions of Bombay Goans. Included are beautiful pictures of food, Christmas stars and a sumptuous table setting. "The well-heeled Menezes family (their bungalow on the leafy Wellesley Road was rented from the father of industrialist, Azim Premji) was one of the few Goans at the time to own an oven. It was a British made Belling which baked the Christmas fruitcake and New Year’s bebinca. But cakes were hardly regular fare in traditional Goan homes in the Sixties and Seventies. The few households that did bake, took their batters to neighbourhood bakeries.Our family's batega pronounced in Goa as batk (coconut cake) and the little ribbon cake were baked in the blazing ovens of Persian Bakery in Poona’s Kolsa Galli, the blacksmith’s hub. But while the coconut in the batega on the aluminium platter survived the savage heat and the cake came out a beautiful golden brown, the ribbon cake bore deep scars." Read full article here:Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas
| | | | | | | | | | | Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas By Reena Martins Issue no. 6 While the older ones rolled out the pastry, the “experts” filled and sealed the neu... | | | | Best wishes,Editorial Team
