How do Merengue French?

French meringue is one of the three types of meringue that are used to decorate. It is the most common, is often called only as Merengue.


How to prepare a French meringue
French meringue is the easiest to prepare.
To do this we need only egg whites, sugar and some electric mixer.
The only negative is that this meringue is then lowered a while to work it out.

Ingredients

4 egg whites.
250 grams of sugar.
1 pinch of salt.

Preparation of merengue

Place the egg whites in a bowl and beat them to point snow.

Then add sugar and salt, stirring constantly.

It will be just right when to lift the beater, peaks form on its surface.

Then place it in a wide sleeve if we do not have sleeve with a spoon or you can use a milk sachet cutting one end. and we form disks for meringues, or make a big merengue, depending on the option chosen.

This merengue place it on a plate with wax paper and carry a very low oven, about 100 ° C, until it is completely dry.

French meringue is not recommended for use to decorate or cover cakes and pies, because as we said above is low, not achieving a good presentation.

Tips to prepare an excellent French meringue

• Use fresh, quality and eggs at room temperature.
• Care that no trace of yolk in the egg whites.
• It used with higher quality sugar, give better texture and flavor.
• We can add nuts or chopped almonds.
• We can give color dye pastry or some cocoa.
• Check that the blender rods are completely clean and dry.