Burima's Sweets

Burima Mishtanna Bhandar began in Jamalpur town in the late 1940s as a small doi-chira shop opened by Amolabala Saha, whom everyone called Burima. Jute workers were her first regulars, and soon the whole town was buying her sweets; she made them, served customers and kept the accounts herself until she died in 2004. Her grandchildren now run the shop in Amlapara. It makes a dozen or so sweets, including chhoto golla, chomchom, kalojam, para sandesh, date-gur sweets and an unusual green-chilli sweet.

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