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The
purported origin of madeleines stems from Louis XV first tasting them at the
Chateau Commercy in Lorraine in 1755 when baked by his father-in-law’s cook
whose name was Madeleine.
There is also a literary reference to these
morsels. French lemon sponge cakes were thought delicious by the French
novelist Marcel Proust. He mentioned his mother making them in his Remembrances of Things Past: “…those
squat, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they
had been molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell.”
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June Scroggin, All Rights Reserved
Now
to add a dusting of powdered sugar and then scoff down these tasty treats.
