Ruby bakes meringues — theguardian.com

Aside from the exertion – or electronically-assisted ease – of the whisking itself, meringues are blissfully easy to make. With just egg whites and sugar as the two base ingredients, there’s plenty of scope to experiment with additional flavours in your meringue – perhaps brown sugar, vanilla, chopped nuts, coffee or chocolate. There are only a couple of important things to bear in mind: the first is to make sure that the bowl and whisk you use are perfectly clean and grease-free before whisking; the second is to mix any additional ingredients in after the meringue mixture has reached stiff peak stage (where the meringue, when the whisk is slowly lifted from it, holds in straight, well-defined spikes).

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