ABSTRACT
Sweetened milk-rice is one of the most common kinds of ritual food offerings in Sri Lanka, and it is also a sweet food which is cooked and eaten at home on special occasions. Milk-rice is known as kiri bat by the Sinhalese Buddhists and as pukkai by the Tamil Hindus and the Ceylon Moors (Muslims). Any anthropologist who proposes to do fieldwork in Sri Lanka must be prepared to consume vast quantities of it.
