Meringue

There are many places in Switzerland where you can eat meringues: those crisp, light confections made from whipped egg whites and sugar.

Here in the Emmental, we eat the meringues (or Merängge in local dialect) from Kemmeriboden-Bad with loads of whipped cream or as part of an ice cream sundae. In Gruyères in the canton of Fribourg, they are served with little barrels of thick double cream.

But it’s Meiringen, in the Bernese Alps, that claims to be the birthplace of t