MERINGUES
by Heather
4 egg whites
dash of salt
1/2 cup honey
parchment paper
Make sure your bowl and whipping attachment are dry as one drop of water will
ruin your meringues.
Let the eggs sit out on counter until room
temperature.
Separate eggs by putting the whites in a bowl and either throwing
away the
yolk or saving it for a custard.
Whip
up the egg whites until they are white and stick to the spoon.
Slowly drizzle
the honey in and add a dash of salt.
Spoon small dollops onto parchment paper
that has been fitted to a cookie sheet. Only use parchment paper, as all
others will cause meringues to stick.
Turn oven on to 150.
If your oven does not go that low, turn it to the
lowest setting. You can turn your oven off for an hour, then back on for 5
minutes
and then back off again for another hour to maintain a very low temp. and do
this until cookies are done.
Cookies should be dried out, not baked and this
process goes for maybe 2-3 hours.
If the meringues start to turn brown on the
edges, your oven is too hot and you should turn off the heat and crack the
oven door open.
Your cookies should turn out the color of honey, but a lighter
shade, in an all over even color.
You need to monitor this by taking peeks in
at them every half hour.
Meringues can be tempermental.