Mandua millet rusk and cookie bakery

This is a small bakery that makes rusks, cookies, nankhatai and bread from mandua (finger millet) and barley flour blended with wheat. Products are packed to keep for weeks, so they travel well as gifts.

Bakery is Dehradun's One District One Product, and the city has a long line of rusk and biscuit makers. That makes trained bakers easier to find. NABARD's 2023-24 credit plan for Dehradun lists mandua and barley among the district's main crops, and calls for farmer-group-led development in the hill areas. Buying millet from hill farmer groups in the district gives your packs a true local story.

You need an FSSAI food licence, a deck oven, a mixer, a sealing machine, and a baker who can get millet recipes right, because millet dough behaves differently from wheat. The hard part is standing out in a city full of bakeries at a price people will pay: millet flour costs more than wheat, so your rusk will cost more than the plain one next to it. Millet flour also goes stale fast, so buy small lots and grind often. Keep label claims honest, with no health promises you cannot back.

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