Pavlova

Name: Pavlova
Ingredients: 300 ml double cream, whipped till firm; few drops pure vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar; 2 teaspoons cornflour; pulp of 10 passion fruits; 4 egg whites at room temperature; 250 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

This version comes, appropriately enough, from an Australian book, Stephanie Alexander’s compendious, addictive Cook’s Companion. I was taken by her family tip of turning the cooked meringue over before smearing it with cream, so that (in her words) the marshmallow middle melds with cream and the sides and the base stay crisp.

Ingredients

4 egg whites at room temperature
250 g caster sugar
2 teaspoons

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to gas mark 4/180°C. Line a baking tray with baking parchment and draw a 20–23 cm circle on the paper. I often don’t, and just imagine what size the circle should be as I doll