In Bengali Hindu cuisine, it is commonly used in making sweet dishes, some of which mix jaggery with milk and coconut. Popular sweet dishes such as "laḍḍu"/"laṛu" or "paṭishapta piṭha" mix it with coconut shreds. Jaggery is molded into novel shapes as a type of candy. The same preparation of sweets have been made in its neighbouring state of Assam. Some of the popular sweet dishes of Assam such as "til-pitha" (made of rice powder, sesame and jaggery), other rice-based "pitha", and "payas" are made of jaggery. In some villages of Assam, people drink salty red tea with a cube of "gurd" (jaggery), which is popularly called "cheleka-chah" (licking tea).