date:Sep 18, 2012
Muslim settlers in India. It is thought that the Mughals brought it in. Aruni points to its mention in the Ain-i-Akbari, that administrative record of Akbars reign. It is called something different there, Aruni says. But that drink too is made with almond pisin (gum). The pisin is the thing that separates jigarthanda from its northern cousin, the falooda, which uses vermicelli and is therefore scooped up and eaten; jigarthanda, on the other hand, is stirred and drunk.
Falooda is also a more inn