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JILEBIS
Ingredients
Plain flour 500 gms
Dry yeast 1/2 tsp
sugar 1 kg
pure ghee 1/2 kg
water 1 litre
cardamoms crushed 2

Method
Sieve flour in a bowl. Mix 1/2 tsp. yeast with 1 tsp. water and let it dissolve. Now add this water yeast mixture to the flour and make a thin batter. Heat sugar and water in a sauce pan and make sugar syrup. Add the crushed cardamoms to the syrup and keep aside.
Pour the batter into a forcing bag fitted with 1/2 inch plain nozzle. Pipe out batter in hot ghee in the shape of figure 8 and fry it till golden brown on both sides. Drain and immediately put it in syrup. Let it soak for 5-10 minutes before serving.

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 Do’s

• An adult should always supervise the use of fireworks by children.

• Check the area before igniting fireworks to ensure that all inflammable and combustible materials are removed.
• Follow all safety precautions issued with the fireworks.
• Use a candle or an agarbathi to ignite fireworks. They burn without an open flame and provide a greater and safer distance between your hands and the fireworks.
• Open flames from matches and lighters can cause additional fire hazards.
• Keep a fire extinguisher or bucket of water nearby to extinguish any incipient fire.

•  Make your diyas look more beautiful by coloring them with different colors.

• Decorate your Diyas with some small decorative glass pieces and stick them on the edge of the diya. When you light the diya the scene of reflection of the flame in those small mirrors will look just amazing.
• Make dough out of wheat flour and water. Make diyas from this dough. With this dough you can make diyas of any shape and size of your choice. Also paint them to make them colorful.

• Keep in mind that people love to receive Diwali Gifts from their loved ones. They would be waiting for a gift from you and thinking hard what are they going to receive as a gift this year. You have on you the pressure to live up their expectation.

• Giving Gifts on Diwali is an excellent way to strengthen relationships with your near and dear ones. So you must make all efforts to decide on the most appropriate gift.

•  Buy legally manufactured fireworks.
• Supervise children while they light fireworks.
• Light fireworks outside the house.
• Hold away sparkles from the body. Never make circles in the air.
• Do not bend over fireworks while lighting it.
• Don’t go near in hesitation whether it is burnt or not.
• Keep flower pots on a flat ground while lighting.
• Don’t light fireworks holding in hand.
• Rockets like fireworks should be lighted during heavy winds and busy areas but in open grounds.
• Never keep extra fireworks in pockets.
• Keep fireworks stock away while lighting a particular firework.

Material required For Gift Wrapping

• Plain and designed, metallic coloured, plastic wrapping papers in silver, gold and bright solid colours.
• I Plain and designed cellophane papers in white, yellow, or with designs like floral pink Bright coloured crepe paper, handmade sheets, hand painted wrapping sheets or even plain brown paper.
• I Throw in bright coloured satin ribbons in different widths.
• Add gold and silver tissue ribbons too as well as cellotapes, double sided tapes and transparent tape in different widths. Don’t forget the glue stick by Elfy, scissors, cutter, ruler, pencil and eraser.
• Glitter tubes, poster paints, glitter pouches of different colours.
• Start up on a collection of crystals, small bells.
• floral motifs, floral or geometric cut-outs in different fabrics and treatments as well as beads and strings of different metals and colours.
• Paper flowers are recommended.
• Go to your kitchen and remove the cling film roll

Method Of Gift Wrapping

• Take your gift and place it in the centre of the paper you’ve selected, anything from plain metallic to two different coloured crepe sheets, put together to give it strength, or self-painted brown paper sheets.

Diwali Calendar / Diwali Date

Diwali day is calculated according to the position of the moon.

According to Hindu reckoning, the date of Diwali falls on 15th day of the dark fortnight in the auspicious Hindu month of Kartik or the month of October/November in English calendar. This Diwali day falls on the amavasya or the no moon day. Diwali date comes 20 days after the popular festival of Dussehra or Vijaya Dashmi.

Diwali Date 2007 - November 9, 2007 (Friday)
Diwali Date 2008 - October 28, 2008 (Tuesday)