Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, italian meringue. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Italian meringue is the most involved of the meringues because it requires a little bit of sugar cookery, but once you understand some meringue basics and have a good thermometer, it's as easy as meringue pie. Italian meringue is the most stable of the three because it requires hot sugar syrup to be drizzled into whipped egg whites so you get beautiful, fluffy peaks. It'll be satiny in texture and will give you tall, proud peaks when you frost your cakes or pipe onto a cake or tart.

Italian meringue is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Italian meringue is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have italian meringue using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Italian meringue:

1. Prepare egg whites
2. Prepare caster sugar
3. Prepare Lemon juice
4. Prepare Water to soften
5. Take glucose

It is most often used for piping on top of pastries and desserts such as baked Alaska because it holds its shape so well. Italian meringue is a bit trickier to make than French or Swiss meringues, but Italian meringue is very stable. Since it is made with sugar syrup that has been taken to the soft ball stage, it won't weep and deflate upon sitting like other meringues, which makes it Perfect for topping a pie. Italian meringue takes a little effort to make.

Steps to make Italian meringue:

1. Mix together the water and sugar in a saucepan, heat until soft ball stage 118°C
2. Just as the sugar reaches 115°C start whisking the egg whites in the machine
3. When the egg whites have turned light and white slowly pour the sugar into the whisking egg white
4. Whisk in the lemon juice, continue whisking until cooled pipe out and bake

It can be used for smooth buttercream icing and crisp but chewy meringue nests. You will need a sugar thermometer. Meringue (/ m ə ˈ r æ ŋ /, mə-RANG; French pronunciation: [məʁɛ̃ɡ]) is a type of dessert or candy, often associated with Swiss, French, Polish and Italian cuisines, traditionally made from whipped egg whites and sugar, and occasionally an acidic ingredient such as lemon, vinegar, or cream of tartar. A binding agent such as salt, flour, or gelatin may also be added to the eggs. Italian meringue is used primarily as a cake frosting, but also forms the basis of divinity, mousse, and parfaits.

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