Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos
at October 22, 2008 at 10:51 PM. 
"They cannot know nor dream
How much dreams command life,
How, when a man dreams,
The world leaps and bounds,
Like a brightly coloured ball
Between a child’s small hands."
António Gedeão,
Pedra Filosofal in
Movimento Perpétuo, 1956
Indian milk candy
To 130 g (13 small 10g balls):
500 ml whole milk
57 g sugar
10 g butter
Cinnamon and curry
Bring the milk to boil strring constantly to thicken (as a soft dough); approximately 20 minutes.
Add sugar and butter and keep stirring while cooking in low heat until you can create a ditch in the bottom of the pan when you run the spoon through the center of the mixture.
Put the mixture into a plate and allow it to cool down.
Roll 1 teaspoon of mixture into small balls (grease your hands with butter before making the balls).
Roll the small balls in a 2 cinnamon:1 curry mixture.
Place balls in small paper cases and the on a serving plate.
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