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| Kind | Dish |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Leaf Flower |
| Also called | fanki |
| Country | India |
|---|---|
| Recorded in | Indian Hemp Drugs Commission |
| First recorded | 1894[1]: 158 |
| Still made | Not known |
Fakki or fanki is the name recorded in the Punjab, Berar and Bombay in the 1890s for ganja or bhang pounded with spices into a paste and swallowed as a bolus. The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission called it the simplest way of eating the drugs. The paste was sometimes mixed with molasses or gur, and a mass might be made and kept for use day by day.[1]: 158
The habitual bhang drinker ate the paste when he had difficulty preparing his drink, and on a journey. It was eaten more in the cold weather than the hot, and the poor used it "not uncommonly".[1]: 158
In Bijapur the deputy collector described fakki in 1893 as a powder. Bhang powder was washed, parched lightly in a frying pan with a very little ghee, ground fine and mixed with poppy seeds and sugar. He wrote that it was "used chiefly by Mahomedans and other people who are given up to the vice".[2]: 94
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.