Madeleine (cake)

The Madeleine is a small French cakes of sand mass, which originated in COMMERCY. The dough of flour, powdered sugar, egg, baking soda, lemon zest, butter and rum will be given with a pastry bag in a form sheet, giving it the relief of a scallop.

The pastry, named in the 18th century by a cook at the court of the Duke of Lorraine, is now also manufactured industrially.

The writer Marcel Proust dedicated to the pastry in his book In Search of Lost Time multiple pages. The taste of a dipped in tea Madeleine reminds the narrator of his childhood, becoming the catalyst of the entire work.