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Madeleines

Name: Madeleines
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 100g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 2 Egg; 90g Granulated sugar; 100g Butter (melted); 1 tbsp Honey; A pinch Lemon Zest

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small, buttery shell-shaped cakes — a French classic immortalized in literature.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Madeleines are small shell-shaped cakes said to come from Lorraine in northeastern France. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, in which the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back childhood memories, made them a symbol of French culture. The batter is rich with melted butter and baked in shell molds; a good madeleine has a pronounced hump in the middle.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Paris pâtisserie, warm madeleines fresh from the oven are enjoyed with tea in the afternoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 100g
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Egg 2
Granulated sugar 90g
Butter (melted) 100g
Honey 1 tbsp
Lemon Zest A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thick.
Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold gently.
Mix in the melted butter, honey, and lemon zest and chill for 1 hour.
Butter the madeleine molds and fill with batter.
Bake at 190°C for 10–12 minutes until the centers rise.

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