On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:08:29 -0800, Ranee at Arabian Knits
> wrote:

> I don't like soft meringue at all,

Really? Maybe what you've had was too sweet.

>and only enjoy hard meringues in small quantities.

Hard meringue is take it or leave it for me and given a choice, I
leave it... except for the forgotten pies (which I've only eaten once)
and I'm going to try forgotten cookies. They are an in between
meringue though.

>I've never liked lemon meringue pies. I prefer
>lemon, lime, coconut, chocolate, all of those kinds of pies with cream
>topping.

I took to meringue pies like a duck to water, but I didn't get them
very often nor do I make them very often - we're talking in terms of
decades at this point. Coconut and chocolate are cream pies so I
assume they should have whipped cream and not meringue. I don't think
I've ever seen a meringue on them.

AFAIC when I make lemon and lime pies making a meringue is cost
effective as well as my preference because I'm using yolks in the
filling... so making meringue is a no brainer for me, I do that to use
up the whites.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.