Italian Meringue

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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
1 pie or tart
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ingredients

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directions

  • Bring sugar, corn syrup and enough water to wet to a boil.
  • Remove from heat at softball stage (240 degrees).
  • Pour into a heatproof measuring cup.
  • Meanwhile whip egg whites to stiff peaks.
  • Continue whipping whites while very slowly pouring sugar syrup into mixer bowl.
  • Be careful not to pour on whisk as it will splatter on to the sides of the bowl When sugar is fully incorporated, whip on low speed until cool.

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  1. Excellent. It's important for anyone making this for the first time that they pour the sugar syrup down the side of the bowl. This is the best topping for lemon meringue pie - no leaking, shrinking, whatever it is that the usual culprits do. For any Aussies or Kiwis making this, use liquid glucose - same quantity. Corn syrup is not common in these parts.
     
  2. this recipe didnt turn out too good for me. I am not sure what I did wrong but the syrup hardened too quickly when I added it slowly to the egg whites. It was a big sticky hard mess to clean up. Wont make this again, unless I can figure out what I did wrong!
     
  3. MEAN: This recipe resembles a recipe my mother used to call "7-Minute Icing". It was very popular a million years ago when I was a teen. The only other Italian Meringue recipe I have run across has called for lots of room-temp butter to be whisked into the whites/syrup mixture. Have you ever tried to create variations with your recipe?
     
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