Symbolic pictureBasudeb Grand Sons
Meherpur's traditional 'Sabitri' and 'Roshkodom' sweets since 1861
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- Sells products
- Takes orders
- Visitors welcome
About
Basudeb Grand Sons makes 'Sabitri', Meherpur's century-and-a-half-old traditional sweet; its present owner is Bikash Saha. In 1861 Basudeb Saha of the Boro Bazar area of Meherpur town began making sweets at home to sell, naming his creation 'Sabitri' after the virtuous Sati Sabitri; his son Rabindranath Saha later learned the craft. It looks rather like a chomchom but is long and flat. No outside confectioners are employed and the family makes it themselves; neither milk nor sweets are refrigerated. Milk collected each day is boiled all day over a heavy wood fire, left to cool in the evening, and made into sweets for sale the next morning, with the amount of milk set by the day's orders. Shortages of milk and labour limit output to 30-40 kg a day. The sweet is a fixture at weddings, when receiving guests and at government functions, and buyers also send it to relatives abroad.
Products and services
Sabitri sweet
Tk 530 / kg
Like a chomchom, but long and flat
Roshkodom
Tk 530 / kg
Prices as given by the owner; ask before you buy.
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