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Question
Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier that are not cooked anymore?
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Solution
My mother shared with me that earlier; laddoos of sesame seed and of beaten rice were made at home. Now, we just buy ‘gajak’ from the market.
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