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ONE EGG WHITE MERINGUE

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Serves: 4-6

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This is a super recipe I have used to make meringues, pavlova, top lemon meringue pies, nests - all sorts and it is so economical too! This works especially well in a fan oven

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Ingredients

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  • 210 ml caster sugar
  • 1 egg white
  • 25 ml boiling water
  • 13 ml white vinegar
  • 2 ml vanilla essence
  • 5 ml baking powder

Method

  1. Beat castor sugar, egg white, boiling water and vinegar together until stiff.
  2. Add vanilla and baking powder and mix till thick and marshmallowy.
  3. Pipe or drop onto non-stick baking paper and bake at 100 degrees for 2 hours.
  4. Ring the changes with substituted essences, e.g. Strawberry but NOT an oil-based essence like mint. Add a tiny amount of appropriate colour.

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  • These, followed to the letter, turned out grainy, droopy, and the meringue was not a meringue at all, I'm not sure what it was. In my twenty years of baking and making Every type of meringue under the sun I've never had such a dismal failure. In an attempt to salvage what was the last egg white in my pantry I dropped spoonfuls onto baking paper in an attempt to make macaron shaped meringues to sandwich together later with a raspberry cream. The bulk and weight of the sugar meant they fell flat straight away, like puddles, and after drying out in a slow oven for more than an hour, they were only slightly better, but the crispness was unpleasant and still grainy, and they weren't worthy of filling after all. Should have binned it before baking. I wouldn't even use these smashed and sprinkled on cupcakes. texture all wrong. Disappointing.

    Posted by Ecomaven on 8th Mar 2013 at 0.48