madeleine

madeleine, madeleine-leivos">madeleine-leivos A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
1981, CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, translating Marcel Proust, Swanns Way'', Folio Society 2005, p. 44:

And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray ... my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.

Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.

The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine, of Jewish evil.

Every five years or so, in the middle of another task, I'll look at them and a particular cover will bring memory flooding back like a madeleine.