Gulkand & Rose
Double-roasted saunf and ninety-day gulkand, in an aluminium tin with a gasketed lid and a dispensing rim. Around eighty servings, and no refined sugar anywhere in it.
Janmastrami ni jamavat is sold outEverything goes out of one blended lot, in the order it was placed. Leave an address and you will hear when the next one is blended, a fortnight behind this one.
10 plants, 6 states.
No refined sugar.
An aluminium tin, not a pouch.
Blended after you order.
A sachet you didn’t pay for.
Postage is free over ₹500.
Net weight 40 g. MRP ₹150; the direct price is ₹33 under it. GST at 5% is already in the price.
About this tin
Mukhwas is what a household reaches for after a meal, out of a steel dabba that has been refilled for years and never once thought about. This is that habit, taken seriously.
Ten things go into it and every one of them is a plant with an address. The gulkand at the heart of it is not stirred in as a syrup: whole petals are layered with Kolhapur jaggery and left in the Pushkar sun for ninety days, then dried down to a crumb. Twenty-three kilos of petals end up a fraction of that, and there is no faster version of the step.
What that buys is a tin worth opening several times a day rather than once after dinner. That is why it is aluminium with a gasket in the lid, and why it is sized to empty in about a fortnight.
Rose first. The cooling turns up about ten seconds later and settles at the back. Then a long dry finish off the fennel. Sweetness is deliberately the quietest thing in it. There is no refined sugar to shout with.
In that order
- FirstRoseJammy, faintly winey, the way a preserve is rather than a perfume.
- Ten secondsThe coolingIt arrives at the back of the mouth and stays there. Spearmint leaf, not a crystal.
- ThenThe chewFennel and split coriander, dry and nutty, something to work at.
- AfterA long finishMulethi keeps the sweetness going after everything else has gone dry.
What’s in it
- Double-Roasted SaunfUnjha, Gujarat
- Dhana DalGondal, Gujarat
- Jaggery–Gulkand CrumbsPushkar, RajasthanKolhapur, Maharashtra
- Roasted Magajtari SeedsMarwar, Rajasthan
- Micro-Diced Date BitsKutch, Gujarat
- Shatapatri Rose PetalsPushkar, Rajasthan
- Whole Decorticated Elaichi SeedsIdukki, Kerala
- Mulethi PowderJammu, Jammu & Kashmir
- Spearmint FlakesBarabanki, Uttar Pradesh
- Rann Sea SaltLittle Rann of Kutch, Gujarat