Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Hey, you'll like this, though: About 30 years ago I made this
> meringue thing < it was pictures on the cover of the Time-Life Foods
> of the World book about foods of the Viennese Empire. It was a
> meringue case, made by stacking meringue rings atop a meringue base,
> filled with fresh fruits and whipped cream, then topped with another
> meringue layer and decorated. My description doesn't do it justice
> and I'm damned if I can find my copy of the book so as to provide the
> recipe, but it was pretty cool.
>
> Those were the days.

Was it something like this:

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/t...s/pavlova.html

If that is not it exactly, have a look at her other meringue recipes