The story goes that when the Taj Mahal was rising on the banks of the Yamuna, Emperor Shah Jahan tasted a piece of petha cooked slowly in sugar syrup and was so taken with it that Agra's ash-gourd sweet became part of the city's royal identity forever. Another tale has Jahangir dipping a warm gulab jamun into a bowl of chilled kheer and pronouncing it the finest thing his kitchens had ever produced. Historians will not vouch for either story.
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