My blog is (almost) burning! Madeleine au Citron

I didn't want to let another IMBB go without participating, so here's my little contribution.

I went through a Madeleine Madness period last year, during which I baked batch after batch of Madeleine and came up with my own recipe. Recently someone tried the recipe and sent me a rave review of it. He also would like to know if I had a recipe for a lemon-scented Madeleine. I am posting that recipe here in honor of Cake Walk. This is a variation of my original recipe, minus the tea, instead using lemon zest for a delightfully lemony perfume.

Madeleine au Citron, à ma façon
Ingredients:
200 g. Pastry flour
5 eggs
120 g. granulated sugar
160 g beurre noisette
10 g. soft butter, for greasing the mold
80 g. liquid honey. If your honey has crystallized, just warm it in the microwave for 20 sec.
Zest from 1 large or two small lemon

Follow the instruction from the original recipe, but skip the tea infusion. Also, add lemon zest to the egg mixture toward the end of the beating.

Voilà, lemon Madeleine. Enjoy.

Comments

That was a serious question. Thanks for your response.

[Pim]

hmm..

I'm not sure if I should take your question seriously or if you were simply being facetious.

Well, what can I say, I do have a job you know, and I don't eat like this every week. Perhaps you just found me in the last couple weeks, during which time I've been on business trips and had many rendez-vous with friends to eat at these fantastic places.

I am a foodie, unabashedly so. I also have many friends who are foodies as well. Many of us travel a lot for our work, and we often meet up at different places to eat.

I am lucky to have a job that let me travel, and also allow me to afford these meals. I often benefit from the generosity of friends with private cellars who bring their phenomenal wines to our tables, but no one pays for anyone else’s meal. I should be so lucky.

Pim -

How do you afford all these meals? Or where did you manage to find friends like these who take you out on these kinds of meals? After reading about your meal at craft, which was clearly unbelievably expensive, I'm just wondering.

I haven't followed this blog since it's inception, and you may have already discussed this, but I just wanted to know. Many of us would love to be in your shoes just to be able to go out to one of these meals, let alone 1 a week...