Follow the easy instructions and you'll be rewarded with your friends' ravings about amazing little biscuits - crispy on the outside and airy on the inside. The perfect accompaniment for afternoon tea. Take them to visit big and small girls.
In a small bowl sift flour, baking powder and salt.
Scrape the seeds out of the vanilla pod and rub in the sugar. Do not throw away the pod, but put it in a small sealed jar of sugar - after a while you will get vanilla sugar.
Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer until fluffy white foam. Pour in the oil, mix for a few turns of the mixer. Using a silicone spatula, fold in the flour.
Put the dough in the refrigerator overnight.
Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a madeleine mold with a thin layer of butter. Fill shell molds almost completely with dough. Bake for 10-12 minutes (the first batch was like Madeleine in 10 minutes, the second in 12). A hump should appear and the edges should turn golden brown.
Cool for a few minutes in the tin, then completely on a wire rack.