Looking for some sunday afternoon entertainment, that wouldn't cut into our holiday spending money piggy bank, Dikki and i decided to have a meringue making contest. Who wins? You decide!
We each made our own bowl of meringue mix, following Delia's basic recipe and adding out own twist. I added a little raspberry jam to mine to make it a pretty pink with a lovely fruity flavour. I also added a drop of lemon when Dikki wasn't looking - this makes the egg white seize up more, and reach the required consistency much quicker, HA! I am a viagra dealer for meringues.
A good twenty minutes of hand whisking later (forty minutes for Dikki, HA!) we were all soft peaks and good to go
Please note how much more confident i am than Dikki is. My mix was PERFECTO! So, into the oven we go. Word to the wise, don't agree to take the bottom shelf....
So, Dikki's top shelf meringues are the cracked, caramelised looking ones, while mine are the nicely shaped but undoubtedly brown ones below (in my defence when you crack them open they are chewy and pretty in pink)
So, what do you reckon? his handicap was no lemon, mine was bottom position.
Who wins??
3 comments:
Dikki's may look more meringue-y, but I bet yours tasted a lot better! And besides -- while a drop of lemon juice makes whipping easier, it doesn't affect the quality of them as much as oven placement evidently does. Therefore, I say...dum dum duuuuummmm...you're the winner! Sorry Dikki :(
I think his tastes better, but your looks better. Little bit to long in the owen perhaps!
I'm gonna have to judge on appearances as licking my iPhone is freaking out the other passengers on my train.
Simply put I am worried when I am presented with brown food in a 'dolop' shape so for me... Dikki wins.
I am confident tastewise yours would have been better!
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