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Gateau Madeleine a l'Orange

From French dishes for American tables, 1886

Can substitute orange peel with vanilla and add currants and citron.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from French dishes for American tables (1886) by Caron, Pierre, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gateau Madeleine a l'Orange. Put in a bowl half a pound of powdered sugar, the same of flour, four eggs, the grated peel of an orange, and mix all well together. Put half a pound of butter near the fire, so as to make it soft without melting it quite liquid, and add it to your other ingredients. Butter ten little tin molds, which fill three quarters with your mixture, and send them to a gentle oven for about twenty minutes

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