Kurakkan Iddly

Always Experimenting..... with Ancestral diet - with authentic ingredients. This time made Kurakkan -Venkaya Iddly. Came out bulging... soft and appetizing. Mummy would be proud and Grandma would be very impressed. It's not easy to impress Grandma. She had excelled in studies geting through senoir Metriculation (quoting her terminology). My mummy got that strict decipline from grandma... but,  allowed us freedom to enjoy life within set boundry and goals. We knew our life goals before even knew or alphabets...

My grandma always complaint about people using white flour and thus getting sickly. kurrakkan is what our ancestors used to eat (did not have white flour/wheat was not cultivated in ceylon) and they were so strong - she used to exclaim. 

We had enough chickens free ranching producing good supply of eggs for our famillies use. Grandpa would take 2 half-boiled eggs every day with pepper and salt. At that time we were drinking raw eggs through a pinhole. I used the eggshells to make chineese dolls, Tea-cup sets & eggplants.

Eggs were reaching 20 cents and she was reminiscing the time when she remembered an egg used to be half-a-cent. I did see half-a-cent from grandma's collection. My little child brain pondered... I could have bought so... many Orange candies for the 5 cents that I had in my undiyal (Terracotta piggybank).

Now I reminisce & say as I heard my Grandma say often... 

Those were the Good Old Days!

 I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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