Then they go to the market and buy sweetmeats and candy and hold a feast in their homes.
When one offers sweetmeats, one does so 'in order to destroy hunger and disease (ksudh-roga vin-san-ya)'.
Surely they have had a chat about this nice little sweetmeat which is to be handed to them.
It is on the more expensive brands of chocolates and on the huge consumption of candy and other sweetmeats.
The fruit are often pickled and used as a substitute for tamarind or made into sweetmeat.
People make distinctive sweetmeats from milk products, including khurchan, peda, gulabjamun, petha, makkhan malai, and chamcham.
I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
The sugar position, actual and prospective, is not such that any additional issues of sugar for the manufacture of sweetmeats can, at present, be contemplated.
