The festival’s most significant practice is the preparation of the traditional “pongal” dish. It utilises freshly harvested rice and is prepared by boiling it in milk and raw cane sugar (jaggery).

Their special Pongal Thali, available from January 14 ... The crunch of the roasted seeds when combined with the natural sweet cane sugar is so delicious that it needs no other ingredient to ...

Their special Pongal Thali, available from January 14 ... The crunch of the roasted seeds when combined with the natural sweet cane sugar is so delicious that it needs no other ingredient to ...

On the other hand, Sakkarai or Chakkarai pongal is prepared with rice, lentils, ghee, and jaggery. It is the sweet offering made to the Sun God. Freshly harvested rice is slowly boiled in cow’s milk ...

While the true extent of damage won't be known for a few weeks, promising signs point to a healthy sugar cane harvest season.

Given the festival demand, there was a spurt in their prices in retail markets in the city, which witnessed milling crowds, on the eve of Pongal on ... to individual cane at a few places, said ...

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...

FROME, Westmoreland — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green is urging sugar cane growers to get back into farming. According to Green, investments by Pan-Caribbean Sugar ...

BOCA RATON — A Boca Raton woman is facing a second-degree murder charge after police alleged she stabbed her husband to death using a blade concealed inside a brass cane. Investigators arrested ...