Lemon-Scented Shell-Shape Cakes

The story of madeleines, little shell-shape cakes, is riddled with literary reference and legend. The famous early twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust refers to them at the beginning of the first book of his multivolume autobiographical novel, Searching for Lost Time. In the first novel of the series, Swann’s Way, Proust writes of eating a bit of madeleine soaked in linden flower tea