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25 Dec, 7 tweets, 4 min read
On a day the plum cake is likely to feature prominently on plates across India, did you know that Thalassery, known for associations with cricket and the circus, was also where Indians began making cakes?...
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Thalassery figures prominently in circus history, thanks to Keeleri Kunhikannan, born there in 1858. The circus training institute he founded in Chirakkara in 1901 produced many illustrious Indian circus performers, acts and companies...
circopedia.org/Keeleri_Kunhik…
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, who incidentally played in the 1st recorded cricket match in Ireland, introduced cricket to Thalassery, arguably the first place in India where Indians participated in cricket matches...
keralatourism.org/thalassery/tou…
It is cakes that are Thalassery's lasting, and still flourishing, legacy in India: thanks to Mambally Bapu, who returned to then Tellicherry from Burma where he shipped milk, tea and bread to British troops in Egypt. He opened the second bakery in colonial India in 1880...
Mambally Bapu created the first indigenous plum cake, at the behest of cinnamon planter Murdoch Brown for Christmas in 1883, using local fermented toddy (yeast wasn't yet in India) instead of the French brandy from Mahe that Brown recommended...
telegraphindia.com/india/an-xmas-…
In 2012, the Cochin Bakery (an offshoot of Bapu's biscuit factory) celebrated the 129th anniversary of the 1st X'mas cake made in India with a 300 foot long cake that also illustrated the history of Thalassery...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Tha…
Mambally Bapu's enterprise lives on in several baking businesses started by descendants across Kerala.
bestotelkottayam.com/About.aspx

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