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Parsi Butter Biscuit

Batasa

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  • Makes

    60

    Batasas
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Art of Parsi Cooking: Reviving an Ancient Cuisine

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2016

  • About

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

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