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Friday, February 5, 2016

Palani Murugan Temple – Panchamirtham

Palani Murugan Temple – Panchamirtham
Palani Panchamirtham is the oldest form of Jam or Fruit mix and preserves very well even for the months. And the saying is that "the Olden it s it tastes better". The secret lies as much in the art of preparing it as in the quality of the fruit that is used as the basic ingredient.
Panchamirtham, collected after Abhishekam, is not only a delicious and nourishing food; but also has astonishing properties which keeps it suitable for consumption over a long period, without refrigeration. You are advised to buy all your requirements from the Devasthanam and to transfer the contents to you own containers for proper preservation. Interested persons may visit the panchamirtham making kitchen in the Devasthanam production unit. The Devasthanam has now made arrangements to manufacture Panchamirtham by using electrical appliances.
Panchamirtham is prepared by this temple by mixing of proportionate quantity of Banana, Sugar, Gee, Honey, Seedless Dates, Cardamom and Sugar Candy. It is hygienically prepared and filled by Automatic Machine. Panchamirtham is filled in 1/2 Kg pet jar and laminated tins and sold in different location like Hill Temple, Rope car Station, Winch Station, Patha Vinayagar Temple, Tiruvavinankudi Temple and Bus stand Information center.
It is the small sized viruppachchi plantains which account for it, the reason being that they have very little water content. Incidentally, Viruppachchi is the name of a village (in the Palani Hills) where this particular variety of plantain is grown and marketed.
Crushed plantains apart, Panchamirtham consists of kandasari sugar from Kangeyam area, dates, kismis, sugar candy (kalkandu), cardamom and ghee in proper proportions.
The plantain is crushed fully. Sugar is then mixed with it. Seedless dates, sugar candy and kismis are added in the third stage. The last items to go into the preparation are cardamom and ghee.