RE: [Sri Ramakrishna] Varakh (silver foil)

[Guest guest]

yup! i too have heard a lot that this is how it is prepared.

 

and now a days i do peel away that varkh before consuming sweets to my best.

 

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>A couple of years ago, Indian Airlines, the domestic air-carrier of

>India had issued instructions to its suppliers to supply sweet without

>silverfoil called VARAKH. Do you know why?

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>The silver foils used for edible purposes is called VARAKH So

>what's so special about VARAKH? This is what I would like to

>bring to your notice. If you keenly observe this VARAKH under a

>microscope don be perturbed if you happen to see traces of blood,

>stools and saliva of a cattle or ox.

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>VARAKH is a silver foil and we have no second questions on this,

>but to prepare this VARAKH important parts of the CATTLE/OX is

>made use of.

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>Intestines are cut into small pieces and then are bound together

>as pages in a notebook. A silver block is placed in the middle of

>these bound intestines, and the whole thing is placed in a leather

>bag and sealed. Experts, who know how to make VARAKH, pound

>the bag with wooden sticks, till the entire bag flattens out.

>The silver

>block would by this time be turned into silver foil. This Silver foil

>would now be separated from the intestine pack and will be placed

>on paper. This is VARAKH, which reaches the market ready for use.

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>Even staunch vegetarians, who shy away from egg, unknowingly

>consume this as a part of sweet, pan and arecanut. Some unknowingly

>consume this because of the additional taste that VARAKH provides.

>Now the question is " Why the intestines of the cattle/ox? Why not

>something else? " The reason behind using the intestines of the

>cattle/ox for

>preparing the VARAKH is because of the elasticity of the intestines.

>They do not get cut even after a severe pounding.

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>This aspect is brought out in the magazine " Beauty without cruelty "

>and the Television show of Maneka Gandhi, " Heads and Tails " .

><source quoted as> Taranga, a weekly magazine in Kannada.

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