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Italian (cooked) Meringue

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. 1 pn Salt
  2. 3 Egg whites
  3. 1/3 c Water
  4. 1 c Sugar
  5. 1/8 ts Cream of tartar
  6. Chocolate
Contains EggsMilk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. From Marian Burros column, July 18, 1990 Adapted from Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," VVolume 2 (Knopf, 1970). Used in chocolate mousse and other recipes that follow.
  2. Italian (Cooked) Meringue
  3. Combine sugar and water in saucepan and stir well. Cook over medium-high heat but do not stir; swirl pan by handle until mixture comes to a boil. Let it boil until liquid becomes completely clear.
  4. Reduce heat; cover pan and continue to simmer while beating whites. Beat whites slowly until foamy. Then beat in cream of tartar and salt. Increase speed and beat whites until stiff peaks form. Uncover sugar syrup; insert candy thermometer and boil until temperature reaches 238 degrees, or soft ball stage. Remove from heat; start to beat whites at medium speed and slowly pour boiling syrup into whites, beating all the time. Continue to beat until mixture forms stiff peaks, about 8 minutes.
  5. The meringue is the proper consistency if it does not move when a spatula is run through it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Kitchen thermometer
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Credit

Saved from www.armchairpatriot.com (http://www.armchairpatriot.com/COMBO%20RECIPES/Meal%20Master%20Recipes/32000.txt), file Recipes/www.armchairpatriot.com/COMBO RECIPES/Meal Master Recipes/32000.txt in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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