It is possible that the legendary little cakes baked by Françoise and offered the young Marcel Proust by his aunt Léonie at Combray were made to this recipe from the popular nineteenth-century cookery book, La Cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville by Louis-Eustache Audot. It’s an appealing notion because this version is both simple and delightful. Serve the madeleines freshly baked – with lime tea, of course.