Mithai Counter · Milk Fudge Squares
Barfi
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Some Chaguanas shops still cook the milk solids down over slow wood or coal fires rather than gas, a method older vendors insist changes the final texture.
Milk is reduced for hours into a thick solid, sweetened, flavored with cardamom or pistachio, and pressed into a slab cut into diamond-shaped squares, sold by the piece at sweet counters.
Why it's made this way: Chaguanas' Indian community brought and sustained barfi-making traditions that have made the town synonymous with mithai across Trinidad.
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