“Lemon Meringue Pie”: Italian Meringue

Name: “Lemon Meringue Pie”: Italian Meringue
Yield: Yield 500 g / 1 lb 1.64 oz
Ingredients: 167 g / 5.87 oz egg whites; 333 g / 11.75 oz sugar; 1 g / .04 oz cream of tartar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Frozen Desserts

By Francisco Migoya

Published 2008

About

Ingredients

333 g / 11.75 oz sugar
167 g / 5.87

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Place the sugar in a saucepan with about one-quarter of its weight in water or enough to obtain a wet-sand texture. Make sure there are no sugar crystals along the inside of the pot and that all the sugar has been hydrated.
Begin whipping the egg whites and cream of tartar on medium speed at the same time that the sugar begins cooking.
Cook the sugar