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Re:The Kingdom of the Dead: For post-Soviet people, Crimea w... by CobrastanJorji on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:21PM (#12868547)
This is also the reason that you sometimes find Madeleines flavored with earl gray tea. It's something of a literary joke about Proust, who helped make the cookies famous.
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Re:The Kingdom of the Dead: For post-Soviet people, Crimea w... by eps on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:35PM (#12869107)
Technically, they are small cakes, not cookies.
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