- sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar
- Meringue is a type of dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar. Some meringue recipes call for adding a binding agent such as cream of tartar or the cornstarch found in confectioner's sugar. Meringues are often flavoured with vanilla and a small amount of almond or coconut extract. ...
- Méringue, also spelled "mereng" in Creole, is a music genre native to Haiti (West Hispaniola). It is related to twoubadou and is musically and historically connected to Dominican merengue. ...
- A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned; A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet
- Egg whites beaten until they are stiff, with added sugar or sugar syrup, used as a topping or shaped and baked until stiff.
- Meringue is a mixture produced from whipping egg whites until they form stiff peaks then combining them with sugar. It has many forms: as a base for lightening mousses and buttercreams or aerating batters. ...
- Stiffly whipped egg whites and sugar, which when baked hard on the outside but soft inside.
- A meringue is a mixture of beaten egg whites and sugar. Meringues are often used as a topping--usually lightly browned in the oven--or baked separately.
- Pronounced muh-RANG. Simply a beaten mixture of egg whites and sugar (sometimes with cream of tartar), that are baked in a slow oven to produce a delicately crisp, white confection that seems to literally melt in your mouth. There are two types of meringue; soft and hard. ...
- A baking term used to refer to the shells made from egg white and flavoring, and filled with a sweet filling, or to the egg whites on a pie, and browned in the oven.
- (muh-rang).--A kind of icing made of white of egg and sugar well beaten.
- (mer - ang) There are various forms of meringue. We use an "Italian Meringue". This is whipped egg whites that are cooked with a sugar syrup.
- Egg whites and sugar that are whipped together until firm, or until stiff peaks form. Meringue is used as a topping on pie, such as Lemon Meringue Pie, formed into a shell to hold fillings, piped into discs and baked, formed into shapes such as meringue mushrooms, and even baked with cake batter ...
- A foam of beaten egg white and sugar. Egg foams were used in pastries much earlier, but the name meringue came from a pastry chef named Gasparini in the Swiss town of Merhrinyghen. In 1720, he created a small pastry of dried egg foam and sugar from which the simplified meringue evolved. ...
- (French) Meringue, a beaten foam of egg whites and sugar, can be used as a pie topping, to lighten other mixtures and, after being baked to a crisp layer or shell, as the foundation of various cakes and desserts (see dacquoise). ...
- A meringue is typically a chiffon that has been made following a certain technique or recipe although it can also be as broad as any whipped egg whites with sugar added. Though it isn’t set in stone most meringues have a 2:1 ratio of sugar to egg whites. ...
- A mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites and granulated sugar.
- Whipped egg whites to which sugar has been added to form a stiff paste. These are used to lighten mousses, cakes, and pastry creams. Unsweetened versions are used to lighten forcemeats. Meringue is also baked in a very low oven, forming crisp shells which are filled with fruit or ice cream. ...
- Mixture of whites of eggs and sugar used as covering over sweet pies
- Egg white whisked until stiff, mixed with castor sugar and dried in a cool oven until crisp. It can also be used to cover the top of tarts and desserts and is usually browned in the oven.
- egg whites beaten with sugar or sugar syrup used as a component in cakes, desserts, confections, toppings, and icings
- A mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar, that are typically baked in the oven until you get a nice golden brown color. Most cookie recipes don't need meringue. But I put it here because I think it would make a great topping for certain cookies.
- the beaten white of eggs, sweetened