Hi Harshoo! I don't recall soojee in a cake. In the U.S. its called Cream of Wheat and eaten like oatmeal (as is rice milled to about the same consistency and labelled Cream of Rice). In Lovedale boarding school they'd serve soojee as either a lumpy porridge or a half-hearted attempt at halva, both of which I hated! My mother toasted it before cooking and the flavour was vastly improved. Incidentally, cream of rice is also used here as a cereal and touted as cholesterol and fat-free, ideal for infants. But somewhere I have an Indian recipe for a mere 1/3 cup of cream of rice to be slow-cooked with a whole quart of enriched milk (half and half) and loads of sugar till it's of pudding consistency, served with almonds, sultanas etc. for garnish. Can't recall the Indian name for it. Loaded with calories, but delicious. Hope the monsoons have arrived in Nagpur. New York is in its usual hot, humid and hazy July weather. Cheers, Claire

Suji hula is favourite of my husband, Louis who makes a mean sugi hulva so unlike the stuff we got in school which was a regular thing and which put me off it for life. However, for Louis' sugi hulva, I make the exception. Huva puri was a regular with us in Calcutta. It was a form of sugi hulva wrapped in a poori (I hope you guys are drooling). Sugi porridge is very different to 'Creamed rice' in India, the UK and Oz where rice is rice and sugi is semolina. We also include Sugi as an ingredient in our AI Christmas Cake and many other cakes as well. It makes the cake much lighter when added to flour. 'My mother toasted it before cooking and the flavour > was vastly improved. ' This is sugi hulva. Molly Sarstedt-Hamilton, Townsville, Australia Researching - Sarstedt/Hitchcock/Osborne/Cullen/Pringle/Vargas/Hamilton/Slark/Samworth/Fury/Short/Lawcock/Smith Beautiful autumn weather at present ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claire Bradley" <claire.bradley@hotmail.com> To: "Bosham" <bosham@gmail.com> Cc: "Raj List" <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:46 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Soojee > Hi Harshoo! I don't recall soojee in a cake. In the U.S. its called > Cream of Wheat and eaten like oatmeal (as is rice milled to about the same > consistency and labelled Cream of Rice). In Lovedale boarding school > they'd serve soojee as either a lumpy porridge or a half-hearted attempt > at halva, both of which I hated! My mother toasted it before cooking and > the flavour was vastly improved. Incidentally, cream of rice is also used > here as a cereal and touted as cholesterol and fat-free, ideal for > infants. But somewhere I have an Indian recipe for a mere 1/3 cup of > cream of rice to be slow-cooked with a whole quart of enriched milk (half > and half) and loads of sugar till it's of pudding consistency, served with > almonds, sultanas etc. for garnish. Can't recall the Indian name for it. > Loaded with calories, but delicious. > > Hope the monsoons have arrived in Nagpur. New York is in its usual hot, > humid and hazy July weather. > > Cheers, > Claire > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

And a favourite of mine. My mother use to make it for our breakfast before packing us off to school. I also learnt to make it from here and now, every once in awhile I make it for myself. Couple of Christmases ago I made a return trip to Pakistan to meet up with my old school chums and was introduced to 'suji halwa'. Never came across it whilst growing up out there. We also had a porridge made of suji, again it was a favourite of ours. Mother always roasted the suji before turning it into porridge or halwa. Now I am drooling. Suji here, in Uk is semolina. Her semolina is made into a pudding, yuck, more like a white sticky gloop used to sticking up large advertising posters, not a patch on the suji halwa. Wilfred in London From: l_ehamilton@iprimus.com.au Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:15 PM To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Soojee Suji hula is favourite of my husband, Louis who makes a mean sugi hulva so unlike the stuff we got in school which was a regular thing and which put me off it for life. However, for Louis' sugi hulva, I make the exception. Huva puri was a regular with us in Calcutta. It was a form of sugi hulva wrapped in a poori (I hope you guys are drooling). Sugi porridge is very different to 'Creamed rice' in India, the UK and Oz where rice is rice and sugi is semolina. We also include Sugi as an ingredient in our AI Christmas Cake and many other cakes as well. It makes the cake much lighter when added to flour. 'My mother toasted it before cooking and the flavour > was vastly improved. ' This is sugi hulva. Molly Sarstedt-Hamilton, Townsville, Australia Researching - Sarstedt/Hitchcock/Osborne/Cullen/Pringle/Vargas/Hamilton/Slark/Samworth/Fury/Short/Lawcock/Smith Beautiful autumn weather at present ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claire Bradley" <claire.bradley@hotmail.com> To: "Bosham" <bosham@gmail.com> Cc: "Raj List" <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:46 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Soojee > Hi Harshoo! I don't recall soojee in a cake. In the U.S. its called > Cream of Wheat and eaten like oatmeal (as is rice milled to about the same > consistency and labelled Cream of Rice). In Lovedale boarding school > they'd serve soojee as either a lumpy porridge or a half-hearted attempt > at halva, both of which I hated! My mother toasted it before cooking and > the flavour was vastly improved. Incidentally, cream of rice is also used > here as a cereal and touted as cholesterol and fat-free, ideal for > infants. But somewhere I have an Indian recipe for a mere 1/3 cup of > cream of rice to be slow-cooked with a whole quart of enriched milk (half > and half) and loads of sugar till it's of pudding consistency, served with > almonds, sultanas etc. for garnish. Can't recall the Indian name for it. > Loaded with calories, but delicious. > > Hope the monsoons have arrived in Nagpur. New York is in its usual hot, > humid and hazy July weather. > > Cheers, > Claire > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message