Food 24′s Easy Step-by-Step Meringues
4 July 2012 in Baking, Cheap and cheerful
Last Friday our daughter pranged her car, she’s fine but the vehicle isn’t and so Princess Gilly is swanning around in my wheels and I’m stuck at home. Because I work from our house nobody seems to think it might be a problem for me *rolls eyes* Myself and my credit card are suffering from cabin fever,
Which might explain why I made meringues, which I didn’t even know how to spell and I have a bad track record for. On Food24′s home page today there was a step-by-step recipe for them and as I had two egg whites in the fridge I thought I’d give it a try.
I followed the instructions to the letter and all was going well until it came to piping them onto the baking sheet, as you can see my piping skills are sadly lacking! You can of course, just dollop spoonfuls onto the tray instead.
I halved the recipe and I made 8 reasonably sized cream cakes plus a couple of odd looking tasters 
Do use the link to see the recipe, they give some nice options such as adding rose water and a few drops of red colouring to give them a turkish feel, which I did.
Just goes to show, put some really rubbish looking cakes on a pretty cake stand and suddenly they don’t look half bad!
High tea anyone?
Karen (Back Road Journal) said on 4 July 2012
I think they are actually quite lovely. I have a little stand that looks very similar.
Sous Chef said on 4 July 2012
Thanks Karen, you are very kind!
My stand was my mother-in-wars.
Colonialist said on 4 July 2012
Very sweet of you to make those! They look fine to me, with or without fancy stand.
Hope the insurance will pay for Gilly’s car? If it had been her fault, I can’t imagine you would hand over your keys very readily, lest she start making a habit of it!
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
Thanks Col. It transpires that her car (being so old) is only covered 3rd party, thankfully her brother has contacts for a new bonnet, bumper and side panel. It was her fault as she went into the back of someone, thankfully there was hardly a scatch on his car.
Tandy said on 5 July 2012
I saw the pic on my BB and was wondering what flowers in your garden looked so pretty!
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
Hahaha – edible flowers!
Mandy - The Complete Cook Book said on 5 July 2012
Good to know your daughter is okay. I would have been over in a flash to get out for a while but alas I am a wee bit too far away.
Mandy
I think you did a stellar job on the meringues.
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
I don’t mind being at home…..but I don’t care for having to stay home, if you know what I mean. Thanks Mandy but me and the piping bag are not big buddies!
Food24 Ed said on 5 July 2012
dah-vine! I’m so glad they came out so well
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
I never make meringues because they have always been a disaster, great recipe, I shall be using it again.
Flee said on 5 July 2012
I really wish my meringues would look as “rubbish” as yours LOL… Stunning
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
Thanks Flee your cheque is in the post!
adinparadise said on 5 July 2012
He who pays the piper gets perfect meringues.
Yours don’t look half bad though, and they go down the same way. That cake stand would make anything look perfect.
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
Xactly! It is a pretty cake stand, sadly it doesn’t get used very much.
rumtumtigger said on 5 July 2012
I love the idea of adding rose water and pink food colouring for the turkish feel. After hunting high and low for rose water in Tableview, I mother had a bottle in a fridge that she hasn’t used for ages and now I’m all set to make my first batch of Turkish delight
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
I’ve never made Turkish delight I look forward to your post.
pinkpolkadot said on 5 July 2012
I think it looks very pretty! My children will kille for some, so maybe I should stop being this lazy and make some!
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
Thanks Dottie, go on, make the kids happy!
zabwan said on 5 July 2012
Your meringues look stunning! looks like a good recipe.
I seriously covet your cake stand, since I have a thing for old glass, and have quite a collection myself!
Sous Chef said on 5 July 2012
It is a lovely platter, I have some very nice cut glass things that were the mother-in-wars. Nice to see you townie.
granny1947 said on 6 July 2012
Yes please…I would love a couple right now.
It is a bit of a mission to leave a comment here?
Sous Chef said on 6 July 2012
We were getting loads of spam so they introduced the code thingy to help combat it I think.
celia said on 8 July 2012
Ha! They don’t just look ok, they look great! I love the light pink tones. Agree with you on piping – I once piped chocolate meringues using a round nozzle (rather than a star one) and they came out looking like…well, you know what..
Sous Chef said on 8 July 2012
Hahaha! that’s hilarious, I can just imagine the comments
I need to work on my piping.
Puppycat said on 13 July 2012
look just as good as the one’s on FB – when is tea
mom had a 1 egg white recipe that makes heaps !
Can mail it to you if you wanna?
Sous Chef said on 17 July 2012
Yes please, we must make a plan to get together and have cucumber sarmies!