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Along with the festive season comes the yummy sweet and salty stuff that just can't be resisted, I have stopped bothering about gaining weight, I will think about it next year! Taler Bora Here are some more of my favourite home-made sweets and snacks for the festive season. You can also check out my earlier post on some of the lesser known Bengali home made sweets . Taler bora : This Bengali sweet is made during Janmashtami. That is the time you can get a lot of ripe palm fruits in the market. It is actually easy to make. The tough and the messy part is squeezing out the juice from the plam fruit. Once that is done, it is pretty simple. Just mix refined flour, semolina, rice flour, grated cocunut and sugar to the juice. Some people like to add mashed bananas to the mix, but that really depends on you, if you want the banana flavour you can add it to the mix. The mix prepared needs to be on the thicker side because small portions need to be deep fried. The result is abs...