Elegantly shell-shaped and oh-so-French, Madeleines make wonderfully impressive tea cakes options. Heaven, however, doesn't have its price. To make an authentic madeleine, you will need a madeleine pan.
There are several explanations for how the madeleine got its name. but the best story is that a deposed Polish King exiled to France in the 1700s was served these marvellous cakes made by a peasant girl name Madeleine. When the king's daughter married Louis XV, thus improving his fortunes with a move to Versailles, the delicacies were served regularly.
Madeleines also are a symbol of the power of memory, their taste immortalised as the trigger for Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
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