This is becoming an annual event… The 1936 National Mark Calendar of Cooking, has a recipe forMadeleines in its October suggestions. My beautiful daughter is Madeleine, so this is exactly the right thing to make for her…
- 4 oz flour
- 2 eggs
- seedless raspberry jam
- 4 oz butter
- 4 oz caster sugar
- dessicated coconut
- glacé cherries and angelica for decoration
- butter 10-12 thimble-shaped moulds
- beat butter and sugar together until it is pale and fluffy
- fold beaten eggs one by one into mixture
- lightly fold in flour
- three-quarter fill each mould
- bake for 20 mins at 200ºC, 400ºF, gas mark 6 (this seems a little hot to me… but I’ll follow the recipe!)
- take out of tins, cool upside down on a baking tray
- it may be necessary to trim the bottoms so they all stand firm and are the same
- when still warm brush with raspberry jam, roll in the coconut, and decorate with a sliver of cherry and angelica cut to look like leaves
