Free Recipe Meringue
Recipe Type: Free Misc Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 8
Ingredients for Meringue Recipe
4 lg Egg whites; room temperature
1 pn Salt
1 c Granulated sugar
Meringue Preparation
This recipe makes enough meringue for about 5 douzen cookies. Master meringue – an easy feat – and everything you”ve ever wanted to know about airy whipped egg whites will be revealed. With a batch of meringue, you”re ready to bake cookies, shape shells to fill with mousses and creams, stack a napoleon, top a pie, construct an elegant Viennese torte, whip up a chiffon cake, or make a light buttercream. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Put the egg whites and salt in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or work with a hand-held mixer). Starting on the highest speed, beat the whites for about 3 minutes, until they increase in volume and form medium-soft peaks that hold their shape. Whith the mixer running, gradually add 3/4 cup of the sugar and continue to beat on high speed for 5 minutes, at which point the peaks will be stiff. Add the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat 2 to 3 minutes more. When you remove the bowl from the mixer, dip the whisk attachment into the meringue and lift it straight up – the meringue that adheres to the whisk should hold a firm peak if you turn the whisk upside down. The meringue is now ready to pipe, swirl onto a pie, or fold into a batter and bake. Three Types Of Meringue: Plain: egg whites beaten with sugar, plain and simple; an uncooked meringue that is the least stable but easiest to make member of the meringue gang Cooked: the egg whites and sugar are heated and then whipped to peaks; a more stable meringue, often used for buttercream, bake Alaska, or meringue pies Italian: the egg whites are whipped with a sugar syrup that has been cooked to the soft-bal stage” the most stable meringue and the one used to make frozen desserts and souffl