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Bertie: "Jeeves, it has been a marvellous travel to Tamizhnadu but commune archer maine what's this contraption? An Indian pancake, I suppose? "I say, Jeeves, each astir this state, this dosa concern sounds similar a culinary ballet! Are we cooking oregon auditioning for the Royal Ballet?"
Jeeves: "Ah, sir, if lone the dosa could pirouette arsenic gracefully arsenic you suggest. Alas, it is simply a humble pancake, not a prima ballerina. "But, if I whitethorn accidental so, it's an imperfectly cleanable entity. The signifier indispensable beryllium a precise circle, achieved done a delicate creation of batter and pan. And the concentric circles of batter indispensable beryllium dispersed with finesse, yielding an outer crispness and interior softness."
Bertie: "Concentric circles, Jeeves? Are we making a dosa oregon plotting a geometric revolution?" You're losing me. And what's this astir outer crispness and interior softness - Sounds similar my past romanticist endeavor!"
Jeeves: "Patience, sir. "Merely ensuring the dosa achieves its afloat potential, sir. Geometry is indispensable successful the culinary arts, overmuch similar ensuring you don't travel implicit your ain feet astatine a soirée. The mode the batter is dispersed connected the cookware has to beryllium perfect, comprising concentric circles. The outer circles indispensable beryllium crisper and thinner, giving mode to softness arsenic you spell inwards -within. Just similar your bosom sir. But dissimilar your romanticist pursuits, the dosa does not necessitate a rescue operation. “And the oil, velacha ennai, indispensable beryllium applied boundlessly with restraint."
Bertie: "Velacha ennai? You're speaking gibberish, Jeeves! And what's the constituent of each this fuss and what is boundlessly with restraint and present you are saying my bosom is similar a bloody Dosa"
Jeeves: ""The coconut lipid indispensable beryllium applied with restraint, sir. Think of it arsenic a man astatine a cocktail party—generous, yet not spilling the punch bowl
Bertie: "Spilling the punch bowl? Good heavens, I’d alternatively not beryllium the beingness of the enactment if it means cleaning up!"
Jeeves- Sir if you aspire to beryllium a Dosa connoisseur you request to beryllium diligent and not beryllium jumpy sir. The pan, perfectly pre-heated, indispensable beryllium wielded with a alloy spatula that doesn't rip the batter asunder. And, sir, present again patience is simply a must. The dosa's mentation should instrumentality thrice the clip of its consumption. The wait, overmuch similar a well-timed joke, should beryllium perfectly paced, with each dosa arriving steaming hot, conscionable arsenic one's patience begins to wane."
Bertie: "I say, Jeeves, you're a regular poet. And what astir this chutney business?"
Jeeves: "Ah, yes, sir. Coconut chutney, naturally, with a grind that's neither excessively coarse nor excessively fine. A decent dash of pottukadalai, gram lentils, adds depth. And, of course, a sprinkle of that divine garnish sir – cheppu molagai and karugapalai leaves provides a popular of colour and a hint of aphrodisiac properties."
Bertie: "Aphrodisiac properties? Jeeves, you're not suggesting I request specified assistance, are you?"
Jeeves: "Merely a note, sir. Now, the sambar –"
Bertie: "Sambar? "
Jeeves: The sambar, sir, indispensable beryllium a symphony of flavours. If it were a musical, it would beryllium a expansive opera, not a one-man show."
Bertie: Jeeves, One-man show? I’d accidental that’s much my style! But I fearfulness the lone happening I could successfully execute is simply a tragic drama involving burnt toast. “I’m not definite I tin instrumentality overmuch much of this."
Jeeves: "Nonsense, sir. The sambar is the pièce de resistance. Pronunciation, colour, texture, ingredients – each indispensable beryllium attended to. If you can't pronounce it perfectly, you can't devour it, sir. And the colour... well, if you tin picture the colour of the sambar, past it's not right, sir."
Bertie: "Not right? What bash you mean?"
Jeeves: "The texture, sir, indispensable beryllium of cleanable consistency. Too thick, and it's similar yam crockery successful the Scottish Highlands. Too thin, and it's similar juice. And, of course, nary disfigured pieces of herb floating about, sir."
Bertie: "Ugly pieces of tomato? Jeeves, you're being dashed particular!"
Jeeves: "Merely ensuring perfection, sir. Now, the drumsticks –"
Bertie: "Drumsticks? Jeeves, I'm losing my mind!"
Jeeves: "Patience, sir. The drumsticks indispensable beryllium boiled to perfection. Over-boiled, and they're similar sucked lollipops. Raw, and the seeds are hard. But, sir, erstwhile boiled conscionable so... it's a imagination travel true. You indispensable rip them mildly with your fingers, focusing wholeheartedly connected the drumstick, arsenic if thing other matters. The seeds again… you cognize the drill present sir"
Bertie: "Jeeves, each this speech of cleanable dosas is making maine consciousness similar a culinary Neanderthal."
Jeeves: "Not to worry, sir. Even Neanderthals had their moments—though I fishy their culinary skills were constricted to occurrence and an occasional berry."
Bertie: "Jeeves, you're a marvel. I don't cognize however you retrieve each this."
Jeeves: "Merely attraction to detail, sir. Now, the bid of operations –"
Bertie: "Order of operations?
Jeeves, I'm exhausted!"
Jeeves: "Dosa, sambhar, chutney, sir. In harmony. First a bully rip of the Dosa, not excessively large not excessively small, a generous but gentle dip into the sambar and past a chill swipe astatine the chutney … it has to beryllium a sleek swipe sir … immoderate 1 of this process measurement you messiness up, means you don’t person the cleanable wound site. Four dosas, I find, is the cleanable quantity.
Bertie: "Four dosas, you say? I tin hardly negociate 1 without feeling similar I’ve conscionable tally a marathon!"
Jeeves: “Then, sir, see it a gentle warm-up for the main event. A dosa is simply a warm-up enactment for the expansive feast that follows." Four is cleanable sir, Anything much oregon little would be... unsatisfactory."
Bertie: "Unsatisfactory? Jeeves, I deliberation I request a prevarication down."
Jeeves: "Merely the deadly dosa, sir. An underdog of a crockery that volition permission you successful awe of its imperfect perfection”
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This is large enjouée évertue not of it including
Thé Aromatisé
THE pursuing is an addendum by me.
Yet it is nary lucifer
to the PANCHA PRAKAARA DOSAS prepared by Amma during the PANCHA PRAKAARA
UTSAVAM of our temple astatine THIRUVANAIKOIL,TRICHY
NOW a days precise seldom we get tasty rima watering preparations adjacent from home.
As fig of employed women has accrued ,women person possibly mislaid involvement
in making tasty nutrient items.
The signifier of life, methods of kid upbringing and other curricular activities person undergone batch of changes
Many radical person started eating successful restaurants doubly a week.
I americium reminded of the Pancha Praprakara Utsavam successful our
village.,Thiruvanaikoil,one of the Pancha Bootha
Sthalas.There volition beryllium a minimum of 2 100 guests on
that time visiting america from greeting to midnight.
The peculiar point was silky Dosa, NOT AT ALL crispy, astir 18
inches successful diameter with chatni & Sambar side
dishes.There was a large 3 feet quadrate grinding chromatic successful our
home. Amma utilized to grind atom and we children utilized to
grind Urad Dal utilizing the grindstones of the
neighbouring houses.Throughout the time my mother
and we daughters would beryllium preparing Dosas almost
continuously.
Dosa cookware which could not adjacent by lifted by us, utilized to be
kept connected a peculiar clay oven, specifically prepared by my
sister who was a specializer successful making specified ovens. We
could simultaneouly hole 4 elephantine dosas astatine the same
time.What a large experience!People came to our house
lone for this dosa and ate to their hearts' content..Our
household kept up the contented astir for 150 years.My
parent did it with large pleasance without a murmur.
Now radical hesitate to hole dosas adjacent for one's own
household members.
Now parents are nary more.House has been sold.
No much dosa.It conscionable remains greenish n our memory.
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