Data Science of Madeleines

Web data

147 different recipes of Madeleines from Marmiton.org.

1. The long tail of madeleine ingredients
2. Proportions of Flour, sugar, butter, and egg in madeleine recipes
3. Madeleine shapes (radar charts)

JSON Data (Feb 17, 2019)

Google Trends

Popularity contest for Google searches between "madeleine", "cupcake", and "muffin".

• Madeleines Vs Cupcakes Vs Muffins

Google Correlate

• Google search most correlated to Madeleines

Fun facts

• The French recipe for Madeleines is about 250 years old (so it must be an evolutionary stable strategy for desserts).
• There are 100's of variations of the recipe from sweet to salty.
• Madeleine is slang for a "Slender blond with perfect features" (Urban Dictionary).