单词 | madeleine |
释义 | madeleinen. 1. A (kind of) small rich cake, in French cookery baked in a fluted tin, and in English cookery usually baked in a dariole mould and decorated with coconut and jam. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake lozengec1430 rundle1587 macaroon1611 cookie1701 Savoy biscuit1719 queen cake1734 madling cake1747 dough1777 butter biscuit1789 rock cake1815 biscuit1818 madeleine1829 éclair1861 fairy cake1867 puftaloon1871 Eccles cake1872 petit four1875 rock bun1879 baby cake1880 rock1892 marigold1896 sponge finger1906 muffin top1914 palmier1920 lamington1929 whoopee pie1929 mandazi1937 French fancy1969 fondant fancy1974 1767 B. Clermont tr. Menon Art Mod. Cookery Displayed II. 410 Gâteaux à la Madeleine. Common small Cakes. 1827 A. B. Beauvilliers Art of French Cookery (ed. 3) 231 Cake Madeleine.—gateau a la Madeleine.] 1829 L. E. Ude French Cook (ed. 10) xxvii. 406 (heading) Madeleine Cake. 1830 R. Dolby Cook's Dict. 327/2 Madelaines. Take nine ounces of powder-sugar, eight of flour, the yolks of four and six whole eggs, [etc.]. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xviii. 473 (heading) Madeleine puddings (To be served cold). 1846 C. 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. 1902 G. 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. 1922 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. M. Proust 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. 1948 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 577 Dip a cherry in a little jam, place on top of each madeleine and put on 2 leaves of angelica. 1960 E. David French Provinc. 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.) 1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 222 (caption) Elegant scalloped madeleines and a punch bowl. 2. With reference or allusion to Proust's use (see quot. 1922 at sense 1) as a type of something that strongly evokes memories or nostalgia. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > survey > in literary form > source of madeleine1939 1939 O. 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. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 174/1 We all have our little fragment of madeleine that brings back a dearly remembered but half-forgotten past. 1962 Punch 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. 1991 New Yorker 28 Oct. 95/1 ‘Begin the Beguine’ is so luxuriously delineated that it's like the slow movement of a pop symphony..—just the ‘haunting’ effect that Porter needs in order to establish the beguine as a musical madeleine, the very playing of which ‘brings back a night of tropical splendor’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829 |
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