Meringues

So as I mentioned in my previous post, I had some egg whites to use up and this was the perfect time to make some meringues. I followed the recipe from the Cook with Jamie recipe book but I cut the recipe in half (since I only had 3 egg whites left)

One thing that I have noticed with working with this book is that the size of the eggs seems to be a bit off. The recipe calls for 6 large egg whites but one of the tips was that 1 egg white should be about 1.5 oz. So this time I actually measured them out and it turns out that Canadian "Large" eggs aren't that large. They are about 1.3 oz instead.

So I modified the recipe with the amount of egg white that I had (1.5 oz egg to 1.75 oz sugar) and I started to whip the eggs.

Flash back to making mayo.... >.<

I really should get an electric mixing machine, but there is something I like about doing everything by hand the way it would have been done when the recipe was first created.

Anyway, after a good 20 minutes of whipping I finally added the sugar (with Talia's help :*) and off to the baking it went. As I write this it is still in the oven but hopefully it will taste great. It certainly looked good :)

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