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Meringues

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a pinch of salt

Cook safely

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

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Ingredients.
  2. — 6 whit -.
  3. | alb.
  4. of castor sugar.
  5. Method.
  6. — Put the whites of eggs in a bowl or basin with a pinch of salt .
  7. and whisk them stiffly.
  8. Sieve the sugar, stir in as lightly as possible with a spoon, folding it in, ralhor than mixing it with, the whites of ch thick board or a baking-tin with foolscap paper (slightly oiled).
  9. Tut the preparation into a forcing-bag attached to a plain pipe, and press on to the paper small round or oval portions in about i inch apart.
  10. Dredge them well with castor sup.v bake in a cool > ;bout 2 hours, when they should have acquired a pale fawn colour, and be perfectly crisp.
  11. Turn them over, scoop out any portion not hardened, and let them remain in a warm place until dry.
  12. Use as requin Time.
  13. — Altogether, about 2^ hours.
  14. Average Cost, 8d.
  15. Sufficient for i dish.
  16. —When a forcing-bag and pipe arc not available, the mixture n °gg.
  17. by means of a spoon and kmi< in the manner ribr-.l in ;
  18. uenellcs of Veal.
  19. Meringue shells may be kept for a considerable time in an air-tight tin box.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 1033, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.