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Summer Bliss
Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> "Ophelia" > wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Was it something like this:
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>> http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/summer-
>> desserts/pavlova.html
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>> If that is not it exactly, have a look at her other meringue
>> recipes
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> No, not a pavlova at all, O.
> These were baked (firm) meringues, the bottom round solid, the next 3
> or 5 (?) were just meringue rings that were set atop the base >
> remember what 'glued' them together to hold them in place. Picture a
> springform pan. Then you put the fruit and whipped cream (if memory
> serves) inside that and topped it with another solid meringue and
> decorated the top. It was pretty cool. Fun to make when I was 30.
> :-)
Hehe.... pie!
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