Baking a Memory: The Madeleine, a Cakey Cookie

by Melody Kettle


I wasn't In Search of Lost Time, but I was  looking for something new.  I was in my kitchen - enjoying my afternoon antioxidants - when I recalled Grandma's Madeleine pans. But where were they?  I knew I saw them somewhere?  

Voila! In the deepest depths of my baking cabinet, below the flour sifter, under the full sheet, half sheet, pound, angel food, and cupcake pans, and even beneath a dozen glass pie plates, lay my Grandmother's unused Madeleine pans. Determined to bake a memory, I emptied my cabinet. 

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