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madeleine|ˈmædleɪn|
Also madeline.
[F., prob. f. name of Madeleine Paulmier, 19th-c. French pastry-cook.]
A (kind of) small rich cake baked in a shell-shaped tin. Sometimes (with allusion to Proust, quot. 1922) taken as typical of something that strongly evokes memories or nostalgia. Also, in English cooking, a kind of baked pudding or small fancy cake.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xviii. 473 (heading) Madeleine puddings. (To be served cold.) 1846C. E. Francatelli Mod. Cook 404 Madeleines..are made with the same kind of batter as Genoese cakes, to which currants, dried cherries, candied peel or angelica, may be added. 1902G. H. Ellwanger Pleasures of Table vi. 169 Dumas tells the story of the excellent cake called madeleine, an entremets which all who have been in France will remember. 1922C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. Proust's Swann's Way I. 61 And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine..my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of..tea. 1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 42 The flavour of Bordeaux pigeon summons with all the completeness of Proust's tea-soaked madeleine an unforgettable cloud of Mons. Doré's angels hovering over the Colosseum. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 577 Dip a cherry in a little jam, place on top of each madeleine and put on 2 leaves of angelica. 1958Spectator 1 Aug. 174/1 We all have our little fragment of madeleine that brings back a dearly remembered but half-forgotten past. 1960E. David French Provincial Cooking 32 At the little town of Commercy originated the small, fragile, shell-shaped cakes called madeleines so beloved of French children... (How the English madeleine, a sort of castle pudding covered in jam and coconut, with a cherry on the top, came by the same name is something of a mystery.) 1962Punch 21 Mar. 462/1 It may be said—if it may then Proust has certainly said it—that the intensity of nostalgic emotion has little to do with the quality of the material which evokes it. (I dare say that madeleine cakes are very nasty.) 1972‘M. Innes’ Open House i. ii. 12 He might have been Proust's Marcel, hard upon imbibing the displeasing little sopped madeleine which brought his childhood flooding back to memory. |