The recipe for simply wonderfuls in my Great Vegetarian Dishes is spectacular.
Here it is:
Orange and Currant Simply Wonderfuls
Simply Wonderfuls are fudge-like sweets made from butter, sugar, and milk powder. They require no cooking combine the ingredients, and the result is simply wonderful! Note: do not melt the butter just soften it by letting it thaw.
PREPARATION TIME: 20 minutes YIELD: about 15 sweets
1 1/4 cups sifted icing sugar
190g unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon finely grated orange rind
2 tablespoons currants
1 1/2 cups sifted full-cream milk powder
1. Cream the butter, sugar, and orange rind in a mixing bowl.
2. Fold in the currants and powdered milk and knead until a firm fondant-like dough is formed. Pinch off walnut-sized portions and roll into smooth even-sized balls. Chill and serve. serve.
milk powder?
Is the milk powder the real ingredient for this recipe? How did Yasoda Ma made it? Or is this milk powder a substitute for something more natural?
Maakhan + Mishri = maakhan-mishri
Hare Krshna
You are right, there is no milk powder in the traditional maakhan mishri. It is just butter (maakhan ) + sugar (mishri / misri)
Neither did Yashoda Ma have icing sugar. Mishri must have been coarser and rockier.
Nor did she have slabs of butter to be softened or beaten.
The freshly churned butter was crumby and rocky , more like crumbled feta cheese. She fed it to Her Kanhai by hand.
I believe it is just a mixture.
Dear devotees from Vrndavan, please help us with this :)
I have heard that devotees stand in line early in the morning maakhan mishri in hand to feed it to their Banke Bihari. The Pujari takes it and offers it, giving back prasad.
Srila Prabhupad must have added milk powder
a) to make it fudgier, tastier, more attractive (mithai)
b) to bind into mini laddoos for easy distribution of prasadam.
He certainly transformed many.
Srila Prabhupad ki jay
Thank you for nice
Thank you for nice explication.
Now I remember it, tried it in Sri Vrindavan Dham. On parikrama, devotees were distributing it.
Maakhan Mishri
Hare Krshna
Very Nice. Simply wonderful indeed. Orange and currants make it tangier too.
The plain version of this ( just the sugar , butter, milk powder) is
'Maakhan Mishri'. (Maakhan = butter)
Little Krshna eats this first thing in the morning... every day.
Everyone in Vrndavan knows Krshna likes Maakhan Mishri so they make sure they have some to feed Him.
Krshna wakes up and sings
"Maiya, Mohe maakhan-mishri bhayo"
"Mother, I like Maakhan-mishri very much".
We can see why Srila Prabhupad made it a 'staple sweet' in those days :) to spread the sweetness of Krshna
Madhuradhipater akhilam madhuram ~
And then ...
"We have the highest knowledge and the highest cholesterol."
http://acharyadeva-nectar.pbwiki.com/Quotes+from+Lectures
;)
something
to think very deeply about. If you don't look after your body well enough, at least to the minimum required, you are in trouble.
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The solution
at temple is not to indulge too much, the solution at home - offer Krshna Simply Wonderfuls in your mind.
Then if you find yourself accidentally popping a Simply Wonderful in your mouth at an unexpected time and place, KNOW that it is Prasad from that Madan Mohan (that you had offered).
He likes to give surprises.
;)
Makhan-Misri:the most delicios prasadam !
Radhe Radhe !
We, in India are very fond off Maakhan-Misari,our Thakurji loves to eat it every morning.If by any mean if we can not arrange it.We offer any thing made up of milk.There is another eatable we usually offer,its a fat memberine of milk;we call it "Malai".We churn Malai with wooden churner "Mathani"in a mud pot: in order to get Maakhan.We buy Misari in market in various flavors viz:plain,saffron & Khus etc.We embelish Misari over Maakhan as per weather saffron in winters & khus in summers, in a silver bowl & offer at the Lotus Feet of Thakur ji.
We never see any thing Harmful in Prasadam.
How's our(my Lord & me) preparation & serving ?
Thank you Prabhuji
for sharing this info.
Hare Krshna