FLAVOURS OF THE PAST features recipes of popular and well-loved dishes of Colonial times, such as Grandma’s Country Captain Chicken, Railway Mutton Curry, Madras Pork Curry. Dak Bungalow Curry, Stuffed Snake Coy Curry, Guava Cheese, Peanut Fudge, etc, which are sure to bring back nostalgic memories.
LIST OF RECIPES IN FLAVOURS OF THE PAST
I The Curry Train
1 Meat Vindaloo
2.Railway Mutton Curry
3 Dak Bungalow Curry
4Mince Ball Curry (Meat koftas in a coconut based gravy)
5 Oxtail Vindaloo
6 Meat and Venthium greens curry (meat cooked with fenugreek leaves)
7 Puli Fry or Tangy Meat Fry (Meat cooked with Tamarind)
8 Mince and Green Peas Curry
9 Beef Roast
10 Chillie Beef Fry
11 Onions and Liver Fry
12 Stewed Kidneys
13 Hot and spicy Tripe (Boty Curry)
14 Meat and Dhal Curry (Meat and Lentils Curry)
15 Tongue Roast
16 Tongue Vindaloo
17 Sheep’s head Curry
18 Hot Meat Fry
19 Spicy Meat kababs (Long Cutlets)
20 Savoury Sun dried Meat Crispies or Ding Ding
21 Veal Chops
22 Spicy Veal Curry
23 Stuffed Snake Coy Curry (Snake Gourd Curry)
24 Brown Stew
25 Dry Mince (Posthole Mince)
26 Curried Trotters
27 Mutton Korma
28 Meat in a Green Masala Gravy
29 Hot and spicy Masala Chops (Grill)
30 Spicy Brain Masala Fry
31 Meat Pepper Fry
32 Beef Steaks
33 Pepper Chops
34 Crumb Chops
35 Mince Cutlets
36 Potato and Pepper Mince Cutlets
37 Meat Croquettes
38 Brain Cutlets
39 Brinjal Bake (Egg plant / Aubergine Bake)
40 Spicy Meat Patties
41 Cornish Pasties
42 Pork Vindaloo
43 Country Captain Pork
44 Madras Pork Curry
45 Pork Chops
46 East Indian Spicy Pork Sorpotel
47 Pork Roast
48 Spicy Pork Fry
49 Pork Baffad
50 Chicken Vindaloo
51 Grandma’s Country Captain Chicken
52 Colonial Style Pepper chicken
53 Simple Chicken Curry
54 Chicken Korma
55 Grilled Chicken
56 Chicken Gizzards and Liver Fry
57 Ceylon Chicken Curry
58 Chicken / Duck Buffad
59 Chicken Kebabs
60 Dry Chicken fry
61 Chicken Roast
62 Crispy Spicy Fried Chicken
63 Chicken Croquettes
64 Mork Tandoori Chicken
65 Duck Vindaloo
66 Duck Moley (Succulent duck cooked with green chillies and coconut milk)
67 Duck Roast
68 Turkey Roast with Stuffing
69 Fish Vindaloo
70 Tangy Fish Curry (Fish cooked with Tamarind)
71 Fish Moley ( Fish cooked with green chillies and coconut Milk)
72 Malabar Fish Curry
73 Green Masala Fish Curry
74 Fish and Green Mango Curry
75 Salt Fish Curry
76 Fried Fish
77 Stuffed Mackerels
78 Fish Cutlets
79 Fish Croquettes
80. Fried Fish Roe
81 Fricadallus (Portugese Baked / Steamed Fish)
82 Shark Mince Fry (Shark Puttu)
83 Prawn Vindaloo
84 Prawns in Green Masala Gravy
85 Fried Salt Fish
86 Spicy Fried Prawns
87 Prawns and Tomato Curry
88 Prawns and Brinjal Curry
89 Fried prawns in Batter
90 Spicy Crab Curry
91 Dry Crab Fry
92 Egg Curry
93 Egg Vindaloo
94 Scrambled Eggs
95 Soft and Fluffy Omlette
96 Cheese and Tomato Omlette
97 Plain Pepper Water
98 Dhal Pepper Water
99 Breast Bone Pepper Water
100 Horse gram Pepper water
101 Dry Shrimp Pepper Water
102 Chicken Mulligatawny
103 Trotters Soup
104 Burmese Piajo Soup
105 Mulligatawny Mutton
II VEGETARIAN VARIETY
1. Mixed Vegetable Curry
2. Green Peas and Potato Curry
3 Brinjal Vindaloo
4 Brinjals in a Tomato Gravy
5 Mashed Brinjal Side Dish
6 Dhal and Vegetable Curry
7 Tomato and Dhal Curry
8 Dhal and Greens Curry
9 Dhal Mash
10 Cabbage Foogath (Cabbage Side Dish)
11 Greens Foogath
12 Beans Foogath
13 Snake Coy Foogath (Snake Gourd Side Dish)
14 Lady Finger and Tomato Curry (Okra )
15 Tomato Sambal (Tangy Tomato Side Dish)
16 Curried Capsicum (Green Peppers)
17 Stuffed Capsicum
18 Dry Lady Finger Fry
19 Bitter Gourd Curry
20 Fried Bitter Gourd
21 Potato Fry
22 Fried Gherkins
23 Fried Cauliflower
24 Mixed Vegetable Vindaloo
25 Railway Vegetable Cutlet
26 Potato Patties
27 Jacket Potatoes
28 Cauliflower Bake
29 Vegetable Masala Chops
30 Vegetable Stew
III A RENDEZVOUS’ WITH RICE
1. Steamed Rice or Plain White Rice
2. Delicious Mutton Biryani
3 Hurry-Burry Meat Palau or Jaldhi Palau
4. Chicken Biryani
5 Saffron Coconut Rice
6 Spicy Coconut Palau
7 Tomato Palau
8 Ghee Rice (Kushka)
9 Green Masala Meat Palau
10 Egg Fried Rice
11 Pish-Pash or Kichidi (A Simple Rice and Lentils Mix up)
12 Vegetable Palau
13 Butter Fried Rice
14 Prawn Palau
15 Peas Palau
IV PICKLES AND CHUTNEYS
1 Mango Pickle
2 Lime Pickle (Sweet)
3 Hot Lime Pickle
4 Carrot Pickle
5 Brinjal Pickle
6 Mixed Vegetables in Vinegar
7 Goose Berry Pickle
8 Chicken Pickle
9 Salt Fish Pickle
10 Prawn Pickle
11 Prawn Balachao (A Goan Recipe)
12 Meat Pickle
13 Sweet Mango Chutney Preserve
14 Palau Chutney or Curd Chutney
15 Tomato Chutney
16 Devil Chutney (Hell’s flame chutney)
17 Coconut Chutney
18 Dhal Chutney
19 Coconut Chutney with Saltfish
20 Mint Chutney
V ASSORTED PREPARATIONS - SAVOURIES, SWEETS AND TREATS
1 Pan Rolls / Pan Cakes
2 Soogi (Semolina) Puttu
3 Savoury Soogi Dish or Upmav
4 Lacy Rice Pancakes or Hoppers
5 Egg Hoppers
6 Fermented Rice Pancakes or Dosas
7 Fermented Rice Dumplings or Idlis
8 Chapattis or Parathas (Indian Bread)
9 Puris (Small deep fried Pancakes)
10 Stuffed Puris
11 Curry Puffs (Hot mince Puffs)
12 Sweet Coconut Puffs
13 Savoury Fritters (Bajjis)
14 Pakodas (Savoury Dumplings)
15 Sago Patties
16 Fish Fingers
17 Cheese Balls
18 Potato Bondas (Savoury stuffed Fritters)
19 Savoury Rice Crispies (Murkus)
20 Sweet Rice Flour Dumplings (Kolkatays)
21 Milk Dumplings (Pal Kolkatays)
22 Semolina Sweet Dish or Kesari Bath
23 Doughnuts
24 Plantain Fritters
25 Short Bread Biscuits
26 Guava Jelly
27 Guava Cheese
28 Vermcelli Sweet Dish (Payasam)
29 Stewed Pears
30 Walnut Delight
31 Rice and Coconut Gruel (Good Friday Rice Congee)
32 Coconut and Semolina Pudding
33 Coconut Pudding
34 Bread Pudding
35 Banana Pudding
36 Plain Custard
37 Caramel Custard
38 Coconut Custard
39 Jelebi Caramel Custard
40 East Indian Sannas (Fermented Fluffy Rice Dumplings)
41 Cashew nut Macaroons
42 Coconut Macaroons
43 Marzipan Easter Eggs
44 Walnut Fudge Easter Eggs
45 Dog’s Bone (Savoury Doughnuts)
46 Kalkals (Small sweetened Balls of Dough)
47 Rose Cookies
48 Coconut Sweets (Barfi)
49 Sweet Rice Fritters (Adarasams)
50 Doldol (A coconut and Rice flour based Halwa)
51 Soogi and Coconut Sweet
52 Marshmallows
53 Marzipan Sweets
54 Beveca (A sweet dish made of rice flour and coconut milk)
55 Peanut Fudge (Groundnut Toffee)
56 Cashew Nut Fudge
57 Christmas Fruit Cake
58 Plum Cake
59 Traditional Fruit Cake
60 Chocolate Cake
61 Butter Sponge Cake
62 Seed Cake
63 Marble Cake
64 Chocolate Brownies
65 Bole Cake
66 Christmas Pudding
67 Comlanga (Pumpkin Sweet)
68 Milk Toffee
69 Fooigas (Fried Bread Sweet)
70 Roat (Baked Semolina Sweet)
VI HOME MADE WINES
1 Grape Wine
2 Ginger Wine
3 Beetroot Wine
4 Gooseberry Wine
5 Rice Wine
VII MISCELLANEOUS (SOME BASIC PREPARATIONS)
1 Chillie Powder
2 All purpose Curry Powder
3 Pepper Water Powder
4 Vindaloo Curry Powder / Paste
5 All Spice Powder (Garam Masala)
1 LIST OF COMMON INGREDIENTS AND SPICES USED IN COOKING
2 GLOSSARY
3 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
