Pastry cookies

Cookies Madeleine is a popular French dessert. It is a small biscuit biscuit. Form for the cookies "Madeleine" usually mimics halves of sea shells-scallops.

A bit of history

The main version of the origin of the Madeleine dessert is as follows. Former Polish King Stanislaw Leszczynski in 1755 held a ball in Paris. At the very last moment of preparations, the cook suddenly fell ill. A smart and intelligent servant named Madeleine who was born in Kommersi (Lorraine) saved the situation by making a messy biscuit in the form of cockleshells according to a recipe given to her by her grandmother. Dessert was a success with the guests and even made a splash. Later, the "Madeleine" dessert appeared on the table of the French monarch Louis XV thanks to his wife - Queen of France - Maria Leshchinskaya. It was she who gave the recipe for "Madeleine" to the confectioners of Versailles, after which this rather simple dessert became especially popular. In those days, France dictated fashion (including culinary) to the whole world, so soon the cookies Madeleine became a very popular dessert among the whole European nobility.

"Madeleine" and literature

"Madeleine" is described in the "Culinary Dictionary" by Alexandre Dumas, who was a real gourmet, connoisseur of cooking and just a passionate lover of food. The "Madeleine" dessert is world famous among intellectuals of all civilized countries thanks to the novel "In search of lost time" by the genius writer Marcel Proust. The taste of the Madeleine cookie from the main character is associated with childhood. The French postmodern philosopher Gilles Deleuze in the work "Marcel Proust and Signs" very carefully, in detail and comprehensively examines and analyzes the problem of "Madeleine" in the work of Proust. In the opinion of Deleuze, the taste of Madeleine is, as it were, a trigger mechanism, more precisely, an involuntary gateway to include the collapse of memories in the main character.

How to bake Madeleine cookies?

So, cookies Madeleine, recipe. It will take a special form, it is better to purchase silicone.

Ingredients:

• gram 180-200 of powdered sugar;
• 3 fresh chicken eggs;
• gram 250 of high-grade wheat flour;
• gram 100 natural butter;
• 80-90 ml of milk;
• at the tip of the knife a little soda, extinguished with a few drops of vinegar; a tablespoon of rum, cognac or orange liqueur.

Preparation:

The dough is kneaded from wheat flour, powdered sugar, eggs, natural butter with the addition of rum and baking soda. Then the dough is laid out in a special baking sheet with figured grooves in which it is baked. Grooves are filled with a confectionery syringe or a bag with a cut tip.

We preheat the oven in advance and proceed. First, melt the oil in a container in a water bath. Thoroughly beat eggs with sugar, better - using a mixer. Gradually add milk and a spoon of liqueur, continuing to whisk. Add the flour to the resulting mixture (necessarily sifted). We bring it to the state of homogeneity at the average speed of the mixer. Now we pour the melted, but not too hot, already slightly cooled butter. Stir thoroughly. Using a packet or a confectionery syringe, fill the form set on a baking tray with a dough. Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C. Bake "malenki" about 20 minutes. We determine visibility visually.

We make tea (ideally, like Proust's - lime) and enjoy a wonderful dessert.