For me it's a memory taking me back to four decades - ripe palm fruit cake.

During my primary schooling, we often moved due to Dad's job and one such posting was in a rural area, where we ate lot of authentic food that barely sells anywhere. One such powerful memory from four decades back was ripe palm fruit cake that I ate few times in a friend's house. Back then they did not have oven, but prepared the cake in a traditional method.

Raw palm fruit is the natural medicine for summer but then it ripens after summer and recently I saw them being sold at a street vendor, which tempted me to try recipe and recollect some childhood memories.

Interestingly I did not notice two varieties available, the black one tastes better than the brown one, but first time I brought the brown one and was quite excited to taste the unique aroma of this wonder fruit after such a long time.

So the hardest part is extracting the juice from the pulp - after taking out the outer skin, need to separate out each unit and then put in water and squeeze continuously till you extract everything.

You really need a strengthy hand to do this but you will love the unique and niche strong aroma while doing so.

Then rest of the stuffs are easy - add sugar, coconut and rice flour to make it like a thick paste.

Then cook it for some time to make it like a cake batter, and put in the cake teen , after adding ghee or butter.

We had to experiment with the temperature, because we could not find any online reference of this recipe. After baking at low temperature for half an hour, we had to extend it for another fifteen minutes.

Finally when it was out, both the teens were finished very quickly within few hours - I can not resist eating sweet and tasting the aroma after four decades was a whole different experience - you can understand.

We felt incomplete so the very next day, I got another black palm and prepared another set of cakes, fulfilling a very long desire. Now a days many places sell traditional recipes but this is still not available anywhere in the market. And if you read the health benefits of ripe palm fruit, then you will know why old people had less diseases.

This post is in response to the The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt 6

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