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What is a madeleine?

What is a madeleine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
  2. (figuratively) Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.
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So what would be the Proustian madeleine that would bring back his youthful self, Judt asks?
Instead of the possibly apocryphal apple triggering the Universal Law of Gravitation, a madeleine sets off a universal law of recollection.
Several people at the resort had seen a man carrying a small bundled child on the night madeleine disappeared.
But as Marcel Proust made clear with his madeleine, the visual is not always the most evocative of the senses.
Use 1 tbsp to generously butter a 12-cup madeleine tin, then put the tin in the fridge.
The quantity of brandy in a madeleine would not furnish a gnat with an alcohol rub.

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