Two highly nutritious milk dishes : Milk is one of the most nutritious and infact an all sufficient food substance. There are many preparations of milk that are healthy and specially rich in nutrition. Two such common and popular though rather costly preparations are as follows:
(a) Badam Kheer: Take a pav of badam or almond seeds and soak them in hot water and after some time remove their skin. Cut them afterwards into small rice like pieces. Take two sers of good milk and cook on low fire till to half a ser of water gets evaporated. Add now the cut pieces of almond and go on stirring. As the milk gets thickened and the almond pieces become homogeneously mixed, add cardamom and run kevada or the essence of the pandanus flower as desired, and mix well. Remove from the fire. Mix country sugar or sugar candy, spread it on wide saucers or plates and cool. When it becomes somewhat cool, decorate with silver foil.
This is a very tasty dish believed to be very good and strengthening for the brain as well.
(b) Rice Kheer: Take a pav of very good quality rice, and keep it soaked in a ser of rose water for about three hours. Then tie this whole quantity in a clean knapkin and hang it up so that the water drips down and till the rice becomes fully dry. Then place it in a pan and fry in a pav of good ghee, till the rice grains become crisp. Afterwards keep this rice in three sers of buffalo milk and cook. When fully cooked add a little quantity of ru/i kevada or pandanus essence and cardamom, and five chataks (1 chattak = 1/2 a pav) of sugar candy. Cool this in wide saucers and decorate with silver foil.
This is a very luxurious but highly nutritious milk preparation that is delectably tasty as well.