I just recently began to have an interest in baking and I though I might attempt to prepare a meringue. I’ve eaten them in the past and I thought they would be tough to make but in reality a meringue is actually quite easy. I found a meringue recipe on-line that is extremely uncomplicated to make. There are only a few ingredients, four egg-whites and 2 1/4 cups of confectioners sugar. All you have to do is mix the egg whites until they are foamy and sprinkle in your sugar a small amount at a time whilst whipping your egg whites on medium speed. As soon as the mixture becomes stiff and shiny it is time for you to quit mixing after which you can put the mixture into a big pastry bag. Utilize the pastry bag to help pipe the meringue onto a buttered cooking sheet and put them into your oven preheated to 200 degrees. They’ll have to bake for roughly 3 hours but making them could not be simpler.
After I made meringues for the very first time I wanted to be a little more bold and take a shot at making a lemon meringue pie. I found a lemon meringue pie recipe on-line which had 1069 critiques from people who have tried out the recipe and these people gave this particular recipe an average 4.6 star rating. To make this particular recipe you will need to pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. To make your lemon filling you will stir together 1 cup of sugar, a bit of flour, cornstarch along with salt. Then stir in a little water, a little lemon juice and lemon zest. Cook this over medium high heat and stir frequently until the mixture starts to boil. After that you stir in a little butter and put some egg yolks in a little bowl and whisk them in the half cup of the hot sugar mixture. Take that to a boil and continue stirring until everything thickens. As soon as the mixture is thick you can put this filling in a prepared pastry shell. To create the meringue part of your pie you can use a comparable recipe to the one mentioned above and then spread the meringue over your pie, being sure you close off the edges at the crust. This will then have to be baked for approximately 10 minutes.
When I was looking on-line I also found a chocolate meringue cookie recipe that I’d really like to try soon. This particular recipe has a couple more ingredients compared to meringue mentioned within the starting of the post but ought to be a lot simpler to create than the lemon meringue pie mentioned above. I’ll have to give that recipe a shot when I have the time.