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In plain words

A devotee is jokingly describing the ways of some of the Suvarnavaniks, and the Master laughs. They love bread with ghanta curry, whether there are other dishes or not. They eat the very finest rice, and among their light refreshments there must be a little fruit. They are fond of the foreign hog-plum, and so on. If a present of hilsa fish and sweets comes to the house, that same present goes on to their relatives, and those relatives send it on to their own relatives; so a single hilsa travels round fifteen or twenty households. The women see to everything else, but for the cooking there is an Oriya brahmin, an hour at one house and two hours at another, and so on; one Oriya cook sometimes cooks in four or five houses.