Yakuti
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| Kind | Sweet |
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| Part of the plant | Leaf Flower |
| Country | India |
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| Recorded in | Indian Hemp Drugs Commission |
| First recorded | 1894[1]: 158 |
| Still made | Not known |
Yakuti is a spiced sweetmeat made with ganja or bhang, recorded in western and central India in the 1890s. The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission named it in 1894 among the hemp sweetmeats like majum, "in general use from the Deccan northwards".[1]: 158
In the town and island of Bombay, J. M. Campbell, the collector, reported in 1893 that the sweetmeats majum, yakuti and gulkand owed their "intoxicating qualities" to bhang or garda, the droppings of ganja. They were eaten chiefly by Hindus from northern India. He put the yearly consumption of the three together at 29½ Indian maunds. Twenty-five people ate them daily.[2]: 95
In Poona the four ganja sweets (majum, yakuti, shrikhand and gulkhand) were all made from one base. Ganja was washed, boiled for 12 hours in water with ghee and strained; the ghee that set on cooling carried the drug. For yakuti one ser of sugar syrup took a sixteenth of a ser of this ghee, flavoured with cardamoms, nutmeg and mace. The mixture was made into lozenges.[3]: 30
In Berar it was a kind of majum. Yakuti, the memorandum on Berar said, "appears only to be another name of majum", but it had to contain the rich spices, while majum could be made from sugar and the essence of ganja alone.[4]: 108
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. VIII, "Extent of use and the manner and forms in which the hemp drugs are consumed", paras. 415–429, pp. 154–158 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Memorandum on hemp drugs in Bombay, by the Hon'ble T. D. Mackenzie, Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. III: Appendices, Miscellaneous. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. pp. 88–102 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. A. H. Plunkett, City Magistrate, Poona". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. VII: Evidence of Witnesses from Bombay, Sind, Berar, Ajmere, Coorg, Baluchistan, and Burma. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Bombay witness no. 19, pp. 28–34 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Memorandum on hemp drugs in Berar". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. III: Appendices, Miscellaneous. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. pp. 107–109 – via Internet Archive.