Britain’s Queen Victoria Also Liked The ‘Mathura Peda’ From This Shop, A Business That Has Been Running For 160 Years.

Queen Victoria liked the tree in this shop.

During the British Raj, if India got many things from the British like railways and postal system, there were many things which the British took away from India. No, no, we are not talking about a Kohinoor diamond but an edible item ‘Mathura Peda’. There is a peda making workshop in India which has been running for over 160 years and its peda was once the pride of the British royal family’s dining table. Most importantly, this shop making Mathura Peda is not even in Braj area.

Lord Shri Krishna was born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, where Peda is famous all over the world. But there are no less people who love Peda in his workplace, Dwarka i.e. Gujarat, and the Peda from a shop here found its way to the plate of the British Royal Family.

Store started in 1860.

Here we are talking about the famous pedagogical shop ‘Pendawala Duliram Ratanlal Sharma’ of Vadodara, Gujarat which was opened on Rajpura Road in the early 1860s. This was the same period when India merged with the British Raj after the revolution of 1857. In Vadodara, Peda is called Penda.

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Actually, this shop has its original connection with Mathura. Two brothers named Confectioner Duliram ji and Maharam ji opened this shop there. But later they moved to Gujarat. Even today, after many generations, Jatin Sharma and Himanshu Sharma of the family maintain this brand and identity and now their Penda is sold in many areas of the city. The only special thing is that even now the taste of their shop,

Pendawala Duliram (Photo: Zomato)

The quality and the sugar bag wrapped in the brown leaf remain intact.

How did it end up on Queen Victoria’s plate?

There is an interesting story about how the leaves from this shop reached Queen Victoria of Britain. Before reaching the British Royal Family, the pedas from this shop found a place in the Gaekwad royal family of Vadodara. Once upon a time, Maharaja Khanderao Gaekwad II passed by this shop sitting on an elephant. But his elephant stopped in front of the shop and was not ready to move forward until he was fed the pedas from here.

After this incident, the fame of this shop spread far and wide. Later, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Vadodara introduced Queen Victoria to the taste of the snacks from this shop. She liked it so much that it was often served as a dessert at the banquets of the British royal family.