Today is celebrated as Ponngal day in Tamil’s Calendar. It is an auspicious day especially to all the farmers since this is a thanksgiving day for the nature especially to the Lord Surya that gives its radiance to the survival of human life in the earth. So, every year we will conduct a gratitude ceremony that starts with boiling cow milk until it spills out of the jar and put the rice in it, until they dries and become sweet rice. As one of the culture, you may not boil the milk on the gas stove, it should be boiled with charcoal and wood. Yeah, it really looks like stay in village. I always love ponngal… especially when we see that the milk is spill out. There is a thrilling experience in that. :)
Something that I learnt is to boil the milk, you need to make sure that you have a good combination between the “stove” and the jar…. The stove may not smaller than the jar, huhuhu like us today, we waited for 3 hours to milk to be boiled hiiihihihi… and it should be the genuine cow milk not the pack one that is usually being sold in the supermarket ;)
Appai (my father’s mother) is guiding us through out the process and sweets are always there. Wade, urende, kesri and some fruits.. Yummy. At the end of the ceremony, appai gave some packs of rice to those people that always help ours.
Inniya Ponngal Nal Valtukal….. ^^
Feel gratitude that is the core of this celebration… always do ….
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