{"id":7656,"date":"2018-02-15T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T05:45:48","slug":"wattalappam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/?p=7656","title":{"rendered":"wattalappam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wattalappam is a favourite dessert comprising of a rich pudding made with eggs, coconut milk, jaggery and cardamoms,\u00a0This brown pudding is prepared by adding a mixture of heated jaggery, coconut milk and ground cardamoms to a stock of beaten eggs after which the whole is poured into bowls and steamed till it assumes a firm consistency. The term is evidently a corruption of the Tamil va\u1e6d\u1e6dil \u00a0\u2018cup\u2019 + appam \u2018cake\u2019, hence va\u1e6d\u1e6dilappam \u2018cup-cake\u2019. \u00a0The dish is however unknown to the Tamils. Rather it is in all likelihood a borrowing from the Malay world, having derived\u00a0from that sweet dish known as serikaya among the Malays of Indonesia and Malaysia. Serikaya is a steamed custard made of eggs, coconut milk, palm sugar and pandan or screwpine leaves, though it is also often consumed as a jam. The similarity between the two however suggests a common origin so that we may have to suppose wattalappam to have originated from this Malay dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wattalappam is a favourite dessert comprising of a rich pudding made with eggs, coconut milk, jaggery and cardamoms,\u00a0This brown pudding is prepared by adding a mixture of heated jaggery, coconut milk and ground cardamoms to a stock of beaten eggs after which the whole is poured into bowls and steamed till it assumes a firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muslimvoice.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}