Afterwards, to celebrate a job well done, we sat together drinking coffee and eating the madeleines Neil serves at Soho institution The French House. This week’s recipe comes from that afternoon ...
Bake for five minutes and turn the oven off for one minute (the madeleines will get their signature peaks), then turn the oven on to 160C/325F/Gas 3 and bake for a further five minutes.
I bought a madeleine pan with shallow, shell-shaped cups, giving madeleines that classic mollusk shape. A recipe for orange madeleines came with my pan and that’s my fool-proof recipe.