Indian posters read this!

[Dinner]

I went to a Indian-American friend's wedding last weekend and his mom gave Soan Papdi to everyone as a parting gift post wedding/dinner/party. It's really good but I've never had any cookie like this before; it's almost long and fibrous. How do they make this stuff? I mean the ingredients, other then a few items like cucumber seeds & cardamom, all sound run of the mill (butter, sugar, flour, almonds, pistachios) yet the finished product is totally different from short bread which uses almost the same basic ingredients.

[Harry Tuttle]

They run the ingredients through a goat's stomach first.