Amplified Proust.
for 30 madeleines:
flour 150g
sugar 180g
butter 150g
eggs 3
1 lemon peel
baking powder, one spoon and 1/2
dried and minced lime blossom flowers, 2 spoons
Mash all ingredients together, and leave the dough to settle for two hours. Fill the madeleines moulds and bake for 15 minutes half turn.
Yesterday i found the silver egg cup i used when i was two...It has a little bump on the cover.
I remember throwing it on the floor because i didn't wanted to eat the egg anymore.
My Proustian memories are everyday stronger...
Albertine, crystallized in a ceramic figure smiles at me, holding Monsieur Marcel's reading glasses.
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