: Dulaler Taalmichhri: The untold story of how a brand of palm candy made Bengal fall in love with it #IndiaNEWS There are a few things no Bengali home in Kolkata is complete without – a green tube

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Dulaler Taalmichhri: The untold story of how a brand of palm candy made Bengal fall in love with it #IndiaNEWS
There are a few things no Bengali home in Kolkata is complete without – a green tube of Boroline antiseptic cream, a trusted phul panjika (almanac) ideally published by Gupta Press or Benimadhob Seal, bright red packets of Mukharochak chanachur and, all importantly, a bottle of Dulaler Taalmichhri, Bengal’s favourite brand of palm candy.Made by crystallising inspissated palmyra palm SAP taal michhri – known for its cooling properties and medicinal goodness – is a pantry essential in every Bengali home. And for most Bengalis, even today, taal michhri is synonymous with the octogenarian Dulal’s.Growing up in Kolkata in the 1990s, I was accustomed to seeing a jar of Dulaler Taalmichhri, with its canary-yellow and ink-blue label imprinted with silhouetted palmyra palm trees, in our mesh-doored pantry cabinet. Next to it inevitably were bottles of Polycrol, Aqua Ptychotis and Isabgol – all staples for dealing with the famous Bengali indigestion.In the summers, every few days, it was essential to have mouri michhrir jal – a trusted coolant – first thing in the morning. A fistful of fennel seeds, a spice also known for its cooling properties, and a few muddy-gold lumps of Dulaler Taalmichhri was steeped in a jar of water overnight. The next morning, the...Read more

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