Recipe: Rose water meringue mess
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This makes a few extra meringues than required, but there’s certainly no harm in having a few hanging around for weekend snacking.
This delicious recipe is part of Khoollect Food Editor Frankie Unsworth‘s Weekend Eats: a waste-free menu for two. Check out Frankie’s delicious menu to get the full weekend recipe collection, and a detailed shopping list that ensures all fresh food is used over two days. Enjoy!
Preheat the oven to 200c (180c fan). Spread the sugar out on a baking dish and place in the oven to heat for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, start whisking your egg whites. Turn the oven down to 100c once the sugar is out. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
When the whites are frothy and getting to soft peaks, start adding the sugar one spoonful at a time. Keep whisking until you reach firm peaks and the mixture has cooled down. Stir the rose water through. Use a large spoon to dollop spoonfuls of meringue onto the tray about the size of clementines (these are going to get broken up anyway so don’t worry too much about how they look.) Place in the oven to bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15. Turn the oven off and leave them in the oven to dry out for a further hour if you have time.
When you are ready to serve, whip the whipping cream to soft peaks with the vanilla bean paste. Assemble the mess in glasses. Crumble some meringues in the base, add a dollop of cream, some strawberries and raspberries. Repeat until you fill the glasses and then top with more crumbled meringue and some edible flowers, if using.
Preheat the oven to 200c (180c fan). Spread the sugar out on a baking dish and place in the oven to heat for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, start whisking your egg whites. Turn the oven down to 100c once the sugar is out. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
When the whites are frothy and getting to soft peaks, start adding the sugar one spoonful at a time. Keep whisking until you reach firm peaks and the mixture has cooled down. Stir the rose water through. Use a large spoon to dollop spoonfuls of meringue onto the tray about the size of clementines (these are going to get broken up anyway so don’t worry too much about how they look.) Place in the oven to bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15. Turn the oven off and leave them in the oven to dry out for a further hour if you have time.
When you are ready to serve, whip the whipping cream to soft peaks with the vanilla bean paste. Assemble the mess in glasses. Crumble some meringues in the base, add a dollop of cream, some strawberries and raspberries. Repeat until you fill the glasses and then top with more crumbled meringue and some edible flowers, if using.
This makes a few extra meringues than required, but there’s certainly no harm in having a few hanging around for weekend snacking.
This delicious recipe is part of Khoollect Food Editor Frankie Unsworth‘s Weekend Eats: a waste-free menu for two. Check out Frankie’s delicious menu to get the full weekend recipe collection, and a detailed shopping list that ensures all fresh food is used over two days. Enjoy!
Preheat the oven to 200c (180c fan). Spread the sugar out on a baking dish and place in the oven to heat for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, start whisking your egg whites. Turn the oven down to 100c once the sugar is out. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
When the whites are frothy and getting to soft peaks, start adding the sugar one spoonful at a time. Keep whisking until you reach firm peaks and the mixture has cooled down. Stir the rose water through. Use a large spoon to dollop spoonfuls of meringue onto the tray about the size of clementines (these are going to get broken up anyway so don’t worry too much about how they look.) Place in the oven to bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15. Turn the oven off and leave them in the oven to dry out for a further hour if you have time.
When you are ready to serve, whip the whipping cream to soft peaks with the vanilla bean paste. Assemble the mess in glasses. Crumble some meringues in the base, add a dollop of cream, some strawberries and raspberries. Repeat until you fill the glasses and then top with more crumbled meringue and some edible flowers, if using.
Amazing recipe, I picked it for Valentines dinner as I only have a couple of hours for preparation, my hubby loved it, so did my cat and dog who kept staring at it with a greedy face.