Sweet Essentials: Meringue

Meringue is an extremely common part of making cakes, sweets and desserts. They do have a reputation for being tricky and volatile but if you follow a few simple rules you shouldn’t have any problem. Sometimes varying conditions can produce different results, such as the age and temperature of the eggs, the humidity in your kitchen and there is certainly a difference when you cook meringue in ovens you are not used to. Stick with it though – master the meringue and a world of soufflés, pavlovas and lemon meringue pies will be opened to you.