1. Sieve the flour. Add salt and cooking soda.
2. Alternatively add a spoonful of oil and curd into the mixture and knead into a stiff dough.
3. Make long thin rolls like the kababs.
4. Heat oil in a kadai, taking care not to overheat the oil.
5. Slip in the rolls and fry them on a slow flame till golden in colour.

For the Syrup:

1. Dissolve the sugar in water and boil the syrup till it thickens in consistency (it should be such that when the sugar syrup settles on the Toshas you immediately get a white sugary coating).
2. Put a few Toshas at a time into the vessel and stir them in the syrup.
3. Remove, cool and store in airtight containers.