This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Tea and Honey Madeleines were on the “to bake” list but I didn’t manage to get them baked before I left for France where – surprisingly, I don’t have a madeleine tin… No matter – I am the queen of improvisation so I decided to use my financier mold (and then some mini muffin tins because I had too much batter!
Dorie says that madeleines are often dipped in tea but as a non-tea drinker, this is something that wouldn’t occur to me to do. In this recipe, the tea is steeped in the melting butter (and maybe some of the leaves are rubbed into the sugar along with the citrus zest). I used lemon but I do love an orange flavour in these type of recipes, just didn’t have any.
I didn’t use tea in these because of personal preference and didn’t realise until I was into making them that the “honey” part of the recipe was only 1 tablespoon, so it didn’t end up tasting very much like honey at all. Also my lemon wasn’t very zesty, so that flavour didn’t stand out much either.
Dorie says to rest the batter for at least 5 hours in the fridge – I typically do rest my batter a long time like this, but I also like the technique of buttering and flouring the tin and placing it in the freezer which I find helps with the humps. This time, since I was using silicone molds I didn’t need to butter/ flour and I didn’t put them in the freezer – though perhaps I should have as I got nearly no rise at all and certainly no hump (when I use buttered/ floured mini muffin tins made of metal for financiers, I do get a hump, even when I don’t rest the batter…).
I rested the batter for around 3 hours due to timing constraints and they turned out lovely but you. know, not quite the recipe… These tasted buttery and rich (because, French butter…) and a friend who I shared them with found them very tasty!
Note to self: bring a madeleine tray to the house in France next time I come!
Get the recipe for Tea and Honey Madeleines on p 195 of Baking with Dorie.
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Next time you’re down under, you can make these for me … tea is fine, but yes, more honey and lemon. Even as you made them, they sound delish.
I will! And I’ll even bring my madeleine tin!