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My Mother’s Mandelbrot Keeps My Family Connected Throughout the Jewish Holidays & Beyond

在这个令人不安的秋天,作为敬畏的日子走近,然后溜走了,我做了我妈妈的天壤之别,因为我每年都做。虽然一切不同的是,今年秋天 - 从我们被放大赎罪服务网上学校和朋友的社会遥远的聚会 - 谢天谢地,曼德尔布罗是一样的。

另外,今年的不同:我的大孩子在外地上大学的高假日,我的两个女儿的第一次一个,因为我成为了母亲一直缺席。我的长子是谁喜欢和我最好的烘焙之一;她my expertchallah-braider,巧克力测量员,薄熙来ld experimenter who encouraged us to try and bake eclairs and french macarons and layer cakes. For the holidays, I sent her a package with my delicious (but less-beautifully-braided) challah, two apples from our favorite farm, and, of course, a tub of homemade mandelbrot.

曼德尔布罗是甜点出现在我童年的1年我母亲接到我从来没见过一个表弟的配方。提高她的家人在中西部地区,从她的大扩展的一个远,我觉得我的母亲一直在寻找方法来重建从她的纽约的童年德裔犹太人的节日。她曼德尔布罗几分巧克力的的曲奇和脆饼;它的形状为长面包,烤的中途,切片,再烤。配方瞬间成为家庭主食,我的母亲做每年七月。她冻结了in big plastic containers so that when she went back to her teaching job in the fall, she needed only to defrost it on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, in honor of her mantra: “Sweets for a sweet new year.”

Every Rosh Hashanah, my mother would invite all her friendsto our house后甜点和咖啡,糖形成对未来一年地壳在我们所有的服务。如果天气暖和,我们会形成在院子里的椅子的一个圆圈,并讨论了镇上的每一个法师的讲道,由至少一个朋友在每一个众参加。喝着咖啡,嗑天壤之别,这一个,那一个给自己的布道。作为一个年轻的女孩和一名十几岁,我会蚕食,听对话,再填充的胡萝卜快速面包盘片,浸渍进出椅圈,看着盘苹果和蜂蜜go brown. My younger brother hovered, too, snatching bites of chocolate bundt cake and cups of soda.

ForYom Kippur我们打破了朋友旋转组快 - 我们的拉比的家庭,一年下来,完全以惊人的蜂蜜蛋糕我永远无法重建;我母亲的同事和她的丈夫,他们的年龄较大的儿童已经搬走了,喜欢听我的高中班;家人从周日学校一个朋友就是我有一个可怕的美眉。我们总是带来了天壤之别。每个人都期待它。他们oohed和大呼小叫,我很自豪的是从在携带它,巧妙地安排在我自己的厨房托盘的家庭。

通过Simchat Torah, the last crunchy pieces were gone. They’d been added to my school lunch or eaten for dessert during Sukkot, until the wet plastic tubs lay on their sides on the kitchen counter, drying in the post-holiday air. Nearly a year would pass until the summer day when I’d look up from a lazyafternoon of readingon the couch and smell them baking again, smiling as I remembered the crumb and the taste.

It’s been 13years sincemy parents hosted a Rosh Hashanah open house in my childhood home, or since I visited the homes of their friends in the town where I grew up. When they retired out west, it was different — fewer friends, fewer connections, and my brother and I were busy with our own families, living too far away to attend.

在所有这些年来,我从来没有能够重新为犹太节日准备的我母亲的几个月 - 所有的美食,可以肯定,但仍精神。我跑扎进了两个星期之后,新的一年之前和蹒跚到运动,收集几十个鸡蛋和面粉的麻袋,并制作各种of new things. But it’s the mandelbrot that really brings the feeling back to childhood, to our sunny yard and the adults murmuring and laughing; to my thick tights and the slippery feeling of honeydew as I set it on the white platter; to breaking the fast on Yom Kippur with mandelbrot for dessert, and finishing the last bites as the chill hits the air.

在很多方面,今年秋天已经不像那些在它之前。今年,除了邮寄天壤之别的桶到我的女儿,我也邮寄了一些我的父母,谁,这要归功于Covid-19,从他们的社区分离,只是太累了,隔绝打扰这个仪式多在所有。他们没有会堂,和朋友没有计划,我的母亲挥手让我过上的FaceTime,当我问她是否被烘烤challah的。“也许我应该,”她叹了口气。“但我还没有有一段时间了。”

And so, to compensate for all we have lost, I made four huge batches of mandelbrot. Mix, bake, slice, bake — four times, mandelbrot filling my house with chocolate and slivered almonds as a bulwark against the emptiness of this sad, hard year. Yes, the mandelbrot makes me missmy family和泪水在我的心脏,但我很高兴我做到了。鲜美如初,它系绳我的赛季。

Mandelbrot Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1杯黄油,室温(I使用地球余额棒,其是乳制品免费)
  • 1杯糖
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 2茶匙发酵粉
  • 1茶匙盐
  • 1茶匙香草
  • 1 Cup sliced almonds
  • 1 12盎司打包半甜巧克力片

Directions

  1. 奶油黄油,糖,鸡蛋和香草
  2. 把面粉,泡打粉,盐
  3. 面粉混合物加入#1
  4. 加入杏仁和巧克力片
  5. 形状面团分成两个长日志
  6. Bake on cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes (do not grease cookie sheet)
  7. 从烤箱中取出烤盘,但不烤箱关闭
  8. 切片日志,然后在Cookie表进行加扰(尝试不同的片)
  9. 返回片烤箱10分钟

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