Home-made vanilla marshmallows

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    20

    medium-size marshmallows
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Table in the Tarn: Living, Eating and Cooking in South-west France

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

  • About

You have never really tasted a marshmallow until you have made your own. Superlight and fragrant with vanilla, you may never again want to eat one of those squashed mini tennis balls out of a bag.

Ingredients

  • 90 g sugar
  • 3 gelatine leaves
  • 60 ml egg white

Method

Line the baking tin with clingfilm - easier if you wet the tin slightly first. Next measure the sugar into a small pan with 85ml water. Put the gelatine leaves next to a bowl of cold water. Put the egg whites into the bowl of a food mixer, with the vanilla and a measuring spoon to hand.

You now need to do several things at the same time. Bring the sugar and water to the boil, stirring t