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by Spixxy on September 1st, 2004

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What are madeleines?

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  • by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on September 2nd, 2004

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    Made famous by Marcel Proust in his novel 'Remembrance of Things Past' in which he wrote: "She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called 'petites madeleines', which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell....... An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses...."

    Madeleines are made with a combination of butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and are traditionally flavored with lemon or orange flower water. It is really a genoise batter that is poured into special oval shaped molds with ribbed indentations that gives them their classic shell shape. These small petit fours sec are often times dipped in tea or coffee.

    Dating back to the 18th century in the French town of Commercy, in the region of Lorraine, the story goes that a girl name Madeleine made them for Stanislaw Lezczynski, Duke of Lorraine, who loved them and subsequently gave some to his daughter, Marie, the wife of Louis XV.

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