Tradition and treats: Mumbai kickstarts Christmas festivities with cake-mixing

Updated On: 15 December, 2022 03:02 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

With Christmas right around the corner, Mumbai’s Catholic community have already started their preparations by putting up the Christmas tree and making the delicious sweets. Among other traditions, they have also started cake-mixing

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Mogan Rodrigues soaked the fruits for the cake in the first week of December and will be feeding it with liquor every five days till Christmas. Photo Courtesy: Mogan Rodrigues

Mogan Rodrigues is busy feeding his cake with liquor when we call him on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It is a process he will undertake till Christmas day to bring out the rich flavours of the cake he is making for the festival. A few years ago, Rodrigues, an Uttan local, got the opportunity to taste the most delicious fruit cake during Christmas he had had till then. The flavour of which he had never experienced before. Till then, he was tasting every other kind of cake that was made closer to the big day, but the flavour of this rich fruit cake lingered on his palate long after the Catholic festival was over. That is when he took it upon himself to make the cake with his family every Christmas season. He explains, “My family doesn’t have a tradition of making cakes, so I started it. They are heavy and dense cakes, unlike plain cakes which we make for rosary or for home.”

The festive season brings with it a lot of food that brings with it a tradition. One of the many activities is cake-mixing which many Mumbaikars from the Catholic community in Mumbai take up at least two-three months before Christmas. Over the years, the tradition has even caught on with many five-star properties and restaurants in the city to bring in the Christmas spirit, some of which have already happened this year. While not many people do it that much in advance anymore, there are others like Rodrigues who have taken it up over the years in Mumbai. For some, it is a family tradition, for others, it is a hobby they like to nurture just to make the Christmas cake.

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