608. Pasta Maddalena

Madeleine Dough

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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Ingredients

  • 130 grams (about 4-½ ounces) of sugar
  • 80 grams (about 2-⅔

Method

First mix the egg yolks with the sugar, and when they have become whitish, add the flour and work the mixture for another quarter of an hour. Add the butter (melted if it’s wintertime) to the mixture, and lastly the egg whites, beaten.

Dry the flour on the fire, or in the sun if it’s summertime.

You can give these pastries many different shapes, as long as they are thin and smal