Roasted sattu and peanut carry the flavour, soya carries the protein, jaggery does the rest.
Slow bread, honest biscuits, nothing refined.
A pape — the old round rusk — fermented for thirty-six hours, a shelf of cookies built for protein instead of sugar, and the stone-milled atta all of them are made from.
Everything begins with the pape.
Pape · The 36
Dunked in chai it holds to the last bite; eaten dry it snaps. The long ferment is what makes whole wheat taste sweet without much sweetness being added — and it is the one thing here that cannot be hurried, copied, or bought in.
Pape is what this town has always called a round, twice-baked rusk — the one that has sat beside a cup of chai in Haryana for as long as anyone can remember. We make it with atta instead of maida, gur instead of sugar, and thirty-six hours instead of three.
German for without. Nothing in this line is sweetened — not sugar, not jaggery, not stevia. Just grain, ghee, seed and salt.
In most houses there is one person who is handed a box at Diwali and told not to open it. This line is for them, and it is not a lesser version of anything: the Besan-Ajwain Seed cookie carries the highest protein of anything we make, and it is the one our own family finishes first.
The same thirty-six hour dough with the gur left out and ajwain worked in. Salted pape is an old Punjabi habit.
Sharp with ajwain, studded with pumpkin and sunflower seed. The highest protein of anything we make.
Pan-roasted in ghee with sendha namak and black pepper. Never fried, never sweetened.
Flour worth carrying home.
Stone-milled atta
Milled slow and cold so the germ survives, bagged the week it is milled, delivered on the same date each month. Nothing about it is special except that it is fresh — which turns out to be the whole thing.
Boost Mix is not a flour on its own — blend 200 g into 800 g of any atta, yours or ours, and that roti lands at roughly 17 g protein per 100 g. Protein atta and Boost Mix both contain wheat gluten, chana and soya. Not suitable for anyone avoiding gluten.
Made for the days you cannot eat grain.
Navratri twice a year, Ekadashi, Janmashtami, Karwa Chauth, the Mondays of Sawan. On those days the whole town eats badly — fried, heavy, bought that morning. This line is the same standard as everything else, just without a single grain in it.
Kuttu, singhara and roasted peanut, bound with ghee. Sendha namak only. The thing to eat at four in the afternoon instead of a fried pakora.
Roasted in a pan, never fried, tossed with sendha namak and black pepper. Sold in the fasting weeks and, quietly, all year — because everybody eats it anyway.
Puffed amaranth held together with jaggery — the old chikki, made properly. One bite is enough to get through an afternoon of fasting.
Vrat items are made on dedicated production days, after a full deep-clean and with separate utensils — no grain flour is in the kitchen on those days. Sendha namak only; no onion, no garlic.
Two shapes. Six sleeves.
Diwali, weddings, birthdays, fasting days, and the box for the person who is always told to skip the sweets.
See the gift boxes