It happens only in Mumbai!
Once while casually chatting with one of our German colleagues over lunch, she told me how much she loves the flavoured Yogurt. So, I asked her if she has ever tried the fresh Yogurt, especially the one that you make at home and eat before it starts souring.
I found her surprise quite amusing and educated her about how we do it.
This also reminded me of another friend back home. This particular friend of mine got married and went to Delhi. After some months she paid a visit to her parents in Mumbai.
In one of her mum-daughter kind of talks of kitchen and household, she told her mom that there was some problem in Delhi, the milk just does not curdle and she is missing having fresh yogurt.
Her mom told her that it’s not possible. And the daughter said no she has been trying for some time now.
The Mom asked again ‘What do you do?’ The daughter described that she keeps the milk overnight but still in the morning it does not curdle.
The Mom persisted and asked further, what do you add in the milk? The daughter simply replied: ‘Nothing. I keep luke-warm milk overnight the way you keep.’
You see, my friend, who had never done much in the kitchen but had taken to cooking after marriage, had only seen her Mom keep the milk overnight but never noticed her adding the culture from previous day’s curd or any citric agent to curdle the milk.
And she attributed the milk not curdling to geographical location and concluded that it does not happen in Delhi.
This has been their legacy family joke ever since.
Ranz on July 2nd 2007 in Life's like that
