Who owns your ghee?

Going to the kitchen, scanning the shelves, saying "ah! there you are!" and picking up the ghee in the bottle is exactly how we see 'ghee'.
Who wouldn't like ghee?
From having our eyes peeled open awaiting for that super aromatic cone shaped Ghee 'cap' dosa from the Saravana Bhavan and seeing 'that' dosa going here and there to others who are also awaiting for it like us!
Oh yeah! Finally, when your dosa arrives and that feeling of sensing the ghee on the dosa with our fingers is definitely priceless!
Oh my Ghee!  You are truly amazing!

Ghee Dosa. Source: Google.

Just a min!
Thinking ghee is the reason for your weight? 
Very sorry! You're wrong. 
It's our lifestyle that plays a major role in blame game about weight and health.
If you could reminiscent, our grandmoms and moms never failed to include ghee whenever she fed us, maybe that was why we were all cute and chubby during our childhood! (*winks*).

However, having too much of  something is not good for anything. Same goes for this superfood- it could counter attack us if used indiscriminately.

Ghee is just super social. It easily socialises with everything and has a good relationship with all other foods.

Adds taste and as we engineers know it is just like adding 1% of carbon to iron that drastically improves its properties and makes it sooo useful for engineering applications .

 This is what exaclty ghee does!
Makes food better! :)

Now, who owns your ghee?

Wait? For an obvious choice, cows right?

Cow aka pasu houses ghee. Ghee doesn't come directly like how we get milk.

It comes from milk fat - from pure cow milk (no xyz% of fat nonsense)

In most of the Indian homes (almost all Indian homes did this probably 3 decades back, regularly- they made their own ghee).

It seems there are two methods to make ghee- Uncultured( I didn't know about this before, so took this article's help) and the other one is Cultured (used since ages) that my mom told me. 

Ghee produced from two different methods.Source: Pure Indian Foods Blog.

Steps involved in making of Uncultured ghee. Source: Pure Indian Foods Blog.

There you go, it tells you the process of making uncultured ghee. 

Well, I do not know much about this so I refered to the article that I mentioned before. Do give it a read if you wanna know more!

So yeah!Coming to the cultured ghee :)

About how cultured ghee is made. 

Milk~ it is heated for a little longer time and then the creamy layer floats on top. This layer is collected over a period of say 3 days or so.

Once you get good amount of cream, we ferment it with curd and leave it overnight so that it gets ready to get churned the very next day before the sun rise or in the early hours of sunrise. 

Why before sunrise? Because that's when the mixture is more stable(doesn't melt) and we would get good quality of ghee.
Now the churned butter is heated and filtered.
Tada! You've got your ghee!

Ghee.

Don't you think the owner also deserves some credits?
Cow is the name. 
And this is one particular reason why cow is worshipped!
Thanking it for rendering it's service to all of us ~ Unconditionally.
Not only ghee, it sources various other dairy products that we use daily!!
If I could link eveything, the list is endless :)

During this quarantine this was one among the stories that my mom told me.
About, Ghee the Great!
If you try asking your parents I'm pretty sure you'll have a great conversation with them and enjoy as they reminiscent their childhood stories. :)
Probably you should try it! :)
My mom said during her childhood days, her grandmom would make ghee on tuesdays and fridays, everyweek!!
It's hard and tiring to do the same work periodically.
Yet, they all had great fun in their childhood - with ups and downs that I haven't seen.
Getting lockdown and to digging the things that I haven't known before was nice!
Getting ready for one more Ghee dosa at my plate!
Hope I added some value to your time!   
And Thank You for reading till the end!

Vazhaelai Quote:

We have to bring back the pride in our culture, our languages and our cuisine.~ Rujuta Diwekar.

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