Parsi Butter Biscuit

Batasas are simple teatime biscuits with a long history and a wonderful legendary story. As the Dutch colonisers left the shores of the Indian port city of Surat in the 1700s, a flourishing bakery was handed over to a local employee Faramji Dotivala. This baker continued to produce the breads for the local British – the next set of colonisers.

Once the Brits too lessened in numbers, the breads’ popularity diminished and the wasted bread was soon distributed to the local poor. Having