Lowney’s – Meringues

Ingredients

• 1 cup egg whites
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup fine granulated sugar (approx. 180g caster sugar)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Add salt to eggs; beat until very stiff.
2. Add two tablespoons sugar, beat five minutes.
3. So continue until half the sugar is used.
4. When very stiff, cut and fold in the remaining sugar.
5. Drop by spoonfuls on to wet paper on inverted dripping pan.
6. Bake in slow oven thirty minutes.
7. Remove from paper; take out uncooked portion; dry in oven.
8. Cool and fill with Whipped Cream or Ice Cream. Arrange in pairs.
9. Chocolate Meringues – Substitute one half cup Lowney’s Premium Chocolate for the one half cup cocoanut in the receipt for Cocoanut Meringues.
10. Chocolate Cocoanut Meringues – Add one half cup Lowney’s Premium Chocolate to the receipt for Cocoanut Meringues.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard