Sweet Savitri and Raskadam, Meherpur

Savitri

If you want to know the taste, behavior, culture of the people of a region, you have to look at its food habits. The diversity of the food of the people of each region is noticeable. Bengali food is a very old saying. Here, too, you will visit some of the regions and see some of the popular and traditional food. Similarly, the traditional sweets of Meherpur are sweet Savitri and Ras Kadamba. Unparalleled in taste, quality and meaning, this sweet is very popular among the people of remote areas of Bangladesh. The traditional sweet Savitri and Rasakdamba of Meherpur have kept their tradition since 1861 till now.

If you want to know the taste, behavior, culture of the people of a region, you have to look at its food habits. The diversity of the food of the people of each region is noticeable. Bengali food is a very old saying. Here, too, you will visit some of the regions and see some of the popular and traditional food. Similarly, the traditional sweets of Meherpur are sweet Savitri and Ras Kadamba. Unparalleled in taste, quality and meaning, this sweet is very popular among the people of remote areas of Bangladesh. The traditional sweet Savitri and Rasakdamba of Meherpur have kept their tradition since 1861 till now.

Raskadam

The current owner and artisan of this sweet making said that the technique of making it is limited only to their lineage. Panchanan Shah invented the technique five years before today. Later, Basudev Saha, Rabindranath Shah and the current owner Bikash Kumar Shah consistently absorbed it and confined it to them. No outsiders are hired except for their family members. Owners themselves are artisans themselves.

A lot of water has flowed through the fast flowing Bhairab of Meherpur, it has changed the people, the society and even the country. Those who invented this sweet-making technique are no longer alive today. It is learned that after the construction of the Taj Mahal in Agra, the hands of those who built the structure were cut off. Because no one else can build a similar Taj Mahal later. But those who invented the technique of making this sweet did not cut anyone's hand, but it was not possible for anyone other than them to know the technique. If anyone wants to know the technique of making sweets, they politely refuse.

Usually made very little sweets without order. Lots of orders but no outside craftsmen so take as many orders as you can. After three in the afternoon, there are no sweets left in the shop. There are only two ingredients for making sweets, local cow's milk and sugar. They do not use any other materials.

The sweet buyers of this shop are the food lovers of different districts of the country including Meherpur. The people of Meherpur think that the programs without Raskadamba and Savitri are inappropriate in different programs of the district. The people of this district like to eat Raskadamba and Savitri, the guests of any other district. Even if you want to send a gift outside, don't think of other options when you get Raskadamba and Savitri. The expatriate people of this district said that if someone goes home on holiday, his colleagues will take him with Basudeb's sweets. Because nowhere else in Bangladesh are these two delicious sweets.

Since two sweets are dry, one week is not wasted without freezing. According to the current business situation, the people of Meherpur are very poor but they eat this sweet as a hobby. Although these two sweets are of the highest value in Meherpur. The price is 220 taka per kg. According to them, if such sweets were in Dhaka, it would not be less than 450 taka per kg. But the love for Meherpur The love of the people of Meherpur has fascinated them through this art work. So they want to cut among the people of Meherpur.