If you are a Bengali, you know what the month of Pous (Jan-Feb in the Bengali Saka calendar) means: puli pithe! These are ossum sweets made specifically in this time of the year. Reema presents the recipe along with photos and videos:

One such sweet is the famous Pithe. After many years all the members of my family were together on Sankranti and it was decided to make pithes to celebrate the day. [My interests were solely getting a new thing to blog about and to eat :D :D ]

Pithes are of various types: Ranga alur pithe (made of sweet potato), chandrapulli,puli pithe (made of coconut), gokul pithe and patishapta (sort of pancakes). The recipe I am going to describe is a stuffed kind of pithe, Puli Pithe. Puli basically signifies the shape of the sweet.