Recipe of the Week 2011 #14: Traditional Madeleines

I decided to try a more traditional madeleines recipe last night. I generally prefer mine to have honey in them, but figured making the regular kind would be a worthwhile endeavor. I got the recipe from here.

They taste pretty good (I like the honey kind better), but the humps were enormous. I guess that's from refrigerating the dough which also, incidentally, made the batter difficult to scoop into the molds. I kind of want to make these again, but put the batter into the pan at room temperature and see how they turn out.

And the smallest of these was Madeline.

Matt's parents gave me a madeleine pan for Christmas.

As a result, I may or may not like them more than I like him.

I'm still tweaking the recipe, adjusting for different spices and different types of honey, but taste-testing them has been a blast.

So far, the favorite honey is the sourwood that one of Matt's distant cousins sent to us via his grandmother.

I am once again inspired to acquire a bee colony (the first time was after reading Plath's Ariel collection). Matt is oddly acquiescent on the subject, as he usually shoots my weird agricultural ideas down.

Maybe he likes the cookies.