The Quintessential Madeleine Pan
Madeleines are small cake like cookies made famous around the world by Marcel Proust‘s Remembrance of Things Past
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. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place…at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory…
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1: Swann’s Way
The Madeleine recipe is fairly simple, try this one by MsGlaze: Madeleine Tea Cake. But first you’ll need one of these madeleine pans.
The Madeleine Pans
While madeleines are fairly simple to make, you’ll need to make sure they don’t stick or get too dark. This pan by Chicago Metallic
Sometimes a non-stick pan just isn’t enough. So try this highly rated silicon version. You’ll never need to worry about these cakes sticking again.
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