Mandelbrot
mandelbrodt, biscotti, almond bread
Mandelbrot (yiddish: מאַנדלברויט), with a number of variant spellings, and called mandel bread or kamish in english-speaking countries and kamishbrot in ukraine, is a type of cookie found in ashkenazi jewish cuisine and popular amongst eastern european jews. the yiddish word mandlbroyt literally means almond bread, a reference to its common ingredient of almonds. it is typically formed by baking a loaf which is then cut into small slabs and twice-baked in order to form a crunchy exterior. the cookies were popular in eastern europe among rabbis, merchants and other itinerant jews as a staple dessert that kept well.its precise origin is unknown, as is its historic relationship with biscotti...
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