Madar Biscuits
The other day I was at my local Persian market doing some shopping. I had just finished my shopping transaction and was on my way out of the door when from the corner of my left eye I noticed a childhood treat sitting casually on a shelf next to the door. Madar Biscuits! Madar in Farsi means mother. Oh My! I had not seen these cookies since I left Iran 25 years ago!!Â
I love the fact that the word , mother ( مادر ) is printed on each cookie. I think every Iranian child has had a love affair with these cookies!
There were three different colors of packaging and in all of the excitement that I was feeling I thought they might be different flavors. Low and behold they are all honey flavored. The price was nominal so it didn’t really matter how many I picked up since they were 3 for $.99, score!
This yellow packaging was the most modern and up-to-date out of all three. The front side of the package was written in Farsi.
While the back was written in English.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but there is nothing more soothing than a little tea and something sweet in the afternoon. So I made myself some Persian tea and since I was by myself, sans polite company, I dunked my Madar Biscuits for a very short second in my tea, ate it and chased it down with a sip of tea! Needless to say that I had myself a fabulous afternoon break which brought back many fond childhood memories!
Do you have any type of food, junk food or treat, that you loved as a child that you’d love to find at the store next time you go shopping?
October 8, 2010
I have similar feelings about having tea briefly dunked in my Parle-G biscuits 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parle-G
October 8, 2010
Oops, I guess it should be the other way around 😛
October 9, 2010
All the childhood memories of late 1970s seeing Maman wearing a summer dress and high heel sandals with large sunglasses and her purse under her arm resembling a folded Zan Rooz Magazine shopping at the little shop at the end of our street in Apadana came back.
And then seeing that scarf-wearing logo is like knife in my chest.
Why has Islamic Republic stamp of forced religion has even ruined this for me?!
October 23, 2010
When I travelled overseas for several months, I pined for Tim Tam slammers. Tim Tams are rectangular chocolate biscuits, coated in chocolate with a layer of chocolate in between the 2 layers of biscuit. To make a tim tam slammer, you bite the ends off, dunk one end in your tea, and suck the tea up through the chocolately middle layer. Classy? No. Deliciously addictive? Oh yes.
October 23, 2010
I would love to purchase several packages of this delightful cookies for my husband. May I have the address of the store?
October 23, 2010
Cindy, here is the address to Hawthorne International Market: 24202 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505 – (310) 373-4448
November 1, 2010
oh i remember that mothers in iran solve this biscuits in tea or milk and gave to their childeren.
February 9, 2013
Iranian food is very similar to Iraqi, or should I say the reverse is true!! Since we call the spinach and another herb we have called barbeen stew “sabzi”, and since my daughter sees the herbs in the salad and tells me Jiddo, grandpa eats these!!! Or that we have timman bagglla, bagla pollo! or my new sister in law’s family are experts in fasanjoon!
I love ka’ak with tea, it is like semi sweet crackers but baked locally so they have different shapes, some of them have sesame on them, some are very plain and fluffy. We also have the same biscuit you put here but it was called with us Mary!
I love your website, just made courgettes stew today and will look tomorrow in Amman Jordan’s market and herbs shop for Zeresht and good quality Zaafran.
July 29, 2014
Where did you get the tea glasses? I have been scouring the web and my local Arabic markets for a set like that!
August 6, 2014
Anthony, I purchased them from my local Persian store. You’ll generally find them at most Persian stores.