The man who carries the pollud kutti salutes his elders by touching their feet and then prepares elakki puttu. The seven ingredients for this dish are rice flour, sesame seeds, ginger, pieces of coconut, shavings of bitter gourd skin, tender leaves of perambu cane and tiny stones. Bananas, milk and honey are mixed with these ingredients and the mixture is rolled into small balls. The balls are placed on pipal leaves that are spread on a mat on the kitchen floor. He and others then take some of the leaves with the balls on them and each one throws a leaf up at the ceiling and calls out the name of an ancestor. It is believed that the ancestor is satisfied if the mixture sticks to the ceiling.