Talk:Mandelbrot (cookie)

Biscotti or Mandelbrodt?
Which was first? The recipes are functionally identical.68.5.64.178 06:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, is this true: "While mandelbrot and biscotti both have a crunchy exterior, mandelbrot is slightly softer than biscotti due to its higher oil and/or butter content." The mandle bread traditional in my family has always been hard like biscotti. If the recipes vary, I think a source indicating that originally this was true or that it is somehow most commonly true should be added.38.105.242.2 (talk) 16:06, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Mother's Recipe

 *  76.169.104.9 was nice enough to add her mother's recpie for mandelbrodt, it of course, does not go in the main article so I moved it here. Someone could move it to Wiki cookbooks Epson291 08:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's the Mandelbrot (Mandelbrodt) recipe my mother used for many years:

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Beat eggs thoroughly, then add sugar, oil, vanilla, flour, baking powder and salt, mixing well with spoon after each addition until completely blended. Stir in almonds. Mixture should be soft. Divide into 4 equal portions.

Sprinkle flour onto board and hands. Working with one portion at a time, shape into a roll about 8 inches long and about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. (This doesn't have to be exact, but the thickness of all 4 portions should be about the same.) Place rolls on a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan and, using the tines of a fork at a slight diagonal to the rolls, gently press the rolls down, just enough to leave attractive indentations in the top. Sprinkle tops with a mixture of cinnemon and sugar. Blow, brush, or shake off any excess.

Bake in oven at 375 for about 30 minutes, or until the cookies are golden brown. While warm, remove from pan and cut with fork indentations to make 1/2 inch slices. Place the slices, cut side down, back onto the pan and toast the pieces at 325 for about 15 minutes, turning each piece half way through. Keep a close watch to make sure they don't get too dark.

Cool on rack and store in air-tight container that's well hidden from eager young kids.

Variation: Although this may shock purists, I really loved substituting freshly toasted pecans for the almonds.

Note: My late mother would actually hide her box of mondelbrodt from my brother and I. She'd dole them out carefully. When we were alone in the house we'd scour every nook and cranny to find her hidden stash. Also, one year, I made a double batch of mondelbrodt and used food coloring to make one red, and the other green. I twisted them together and made christmas cookies from them. My mother was agast.

various spellings
This page was originally named "Mandelbrot (bread)", with the parenthetical to distinguish it from the much better known Mandelbrot set. On 5 February 2007,  this page from "Mandelbrot (bread)" to "Mandelbrodt", ending in dt instead of t. I propose moving it to "Mandelbrot (cookie)".

There are a number of variant names for the food in English— "mandelbrot", "mandelbrodt", "mandelbrod", "mandlbrot", "mandlbrodt", with del or dl in the middle and t, dt, or d at the end— but "mandelbrot", with del and t, is by far the most frequently used, according to these Google searches (using quotation marks to keep Google from trying to "correct" the spelling): almond "mandelbrot"  "mandelbrodt" -set		   800 almond "mandelbrot"  "mandelbrodt"			 1,550

almond "mandelbrot" -"mandelbrodt" -set		21,100 almond "mandelbrot" -"mandelbrodt"			56,300

almond -"mandelbrot" "mandelbrodt" -set		 1,990 almond -"mandelbrot" "mandelbrodt"			 2,700

almond "mandelbrod"  -set				    81 almond "mandelbrod"					    71

almond -"mandelbrot" "mandelbrodt" "mandlbrod" -set	     0 almond -"mandelbrot" "mandelbrodt" "mandlbrod"		     0

At present, Mandelbrot is a DAB page, and renaming it would create unnecessary complications. And while the word literally means 'almond bread', it is more accurately described as a cookie and is so called in the article. Therefore I propose renaming (moving) it to "Mandelbrot (cookie)", with the most common spelling and the current perception of its type.

--Thnidu (talk) 07:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. --Thnidu (talk) 01:19, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Variant Spellings?
There are no Variant spellings. It's always spelled "מאַנדעלבראָט‎" 50.168.2.21 (talk)
 * Only by the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. The German-speaking Maskilim always spelled it "Mandelbrot". --ABehrens (talk) 05:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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