Madeleine French Cookies

Delicate French cookies with a rich creamy flavor! The cookies turn out to be very tender, with a rich creamy aroma. Madeleine is a very tasty cookie originally from France made in the form of shells. I have been chasing such molds for a very long time and finally I was lucky :), but you can cook such cookies in any other form, for example, in the form of cupcakes, their taste will not suffer at all from this. You can add a lot of additives to this dough according to your taste - lemon juice and zest, ground nuts or just vanilla.

Irisha

The author of the recipe

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken eggs

Powdered sugar

100

Wheat flour

120

Butter

110

Honey

Baking powder

0.25

Table salt (pinch)

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 10 % 7 g

Fats 32 % 22 g

Carbohydrates 58 % 40 g

362 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min

Step 1:
Ingredients.
Step 2:
Melt the butter and leave to cool.
Step 3:
Mix eggs with sugar and honey.
Step 4:
Gently beat with a whisk for about 3 minutes, until light foam.
Step 5:
Add the sifted flour with baking powder, mix until smooth.
Step 6:
Add the melted butter and a pinch of salt, mix everything.
Step 7:
Cover the bowl with cling film and send the dough to the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Step 8:
After that, fill the molds with dough (3/4).
Step 9:
Bake for 10 minutes: 1 minute at 240C, then reduce the temperature to 200C and bake for 4 minutes, again reduce the temperature to 180C and bake for another 5 minutes. Bon appetit!

The Madeleines owe their worldwide fame to Marcel Proust's novel "Towards Swann" (the first in a cycle of seven novels "In Search of Lost Time"). In one of the most famous scenes of world literature, the main character dips cookies into tea — and is transported for hundreds of pages to his childhood in Combray, with which he forever associates the taste of this cookie.

The most common version of the origin of this cookie is associated with the name of the titular king of Poland and the last Duke of Lorraine in 1737-1766 — Stanislaw Leszczynski (1677-1766). In 1755 Leshchinsky gave a gala dinner at his castle in Commerce (Lorraine), but before the reception he was informed that there was a quarrel between the quartermaster and the cook, as a result of which the cook resigned and left without preparing dessert. Maid Madeleine Paulmier (fr. Madeleine Paulmier) offered to cook cakes according to her grandmother's recipe. The result exceeded all expectations, and the new dish was named after her.

According to another legend, the origin and shape of cookies are associated with a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to the relics of the Apostle James. The symbol of the pilgrims was the scallop shell (called Saint-Jacques in France, literally "Saint James"). In these shells, a certain girl named Madeleine baked cookies, which she then treated the pilgrims to.

There is another version according to which Madeleine cookies appeared only in the XIX century, and its creator was Jean Avice, a French pastry chef, Talleyrand supplier and teacher of Marie-Antoine Karem.