Is Mysore is full of Mysore Pak? At childhood I thought of it a lot about it. While hearing Mysore, mysore pak will come to the mind first. It is one of the sweetest pak, which melts while putting into mouth. I like it very much. The craziness to the pak forced me to reach Mysore. I enquired about it there, somebody showed me a shop , which sells pak. It is Guru sweet Mart, locating in Sayyaji Rao road Nataraj brother of Guru sweet mart explained about the history of Mysore pak.
The story of Pak which born in Mysore Royal Family. Madappa was the chief cook of late Mysore king Krishnaraja Vodayar. Once in a lunch, there was a shortage of one dish for the king. The one portion of the plate was empty. Due to lack of time, Madappa tried a new dish . He mixed gramflour with ghee , jaggery and Sugar , which was like a syrup. But it became dry and set after finishing the lunch.The king ate it and he liked it very much. Pakka is Kannada word which means sweet add finally it changes into Pak. After that it is officially named as Mysore Pak.
Krishnaraj king was impressed about his talents in cooking and he had given permission to start a sweet shop at the ground of Amba Vilas Palace. At that place since 1957 Guru Sweet mart is locating now, it is owning by 5th generation of Madappa. It is preparing by addition of Gram flour mixing with ghee , sugar and Jaggery at correct proportion. It melts and changes into honey while putting into mouth. Not only Mysore pak, but also there are variety kinds of Barfis, Laddu and sweets are available here.
Everybody must taste this prince of sweets at least once without fearing diabetes.