Tag: french meringue
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Demystifying Dacquoise and Japonais
The first time I learned about this lovely soft and crunchy base that can be used as a cake layer was in culinary school. I was taught that dacquoise (pronounced dak-waz) incorporated almond flour and the other similar version called japonais (pronounced zha-po-nay) used hazelnut flour…but it’s a little more complicated than that. The term…
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Part 1-French Meringue
As we said yesterday, French meringue is only used to accomplish 2 things…lighten a batter or pipe out meringue shells/cookies that will bake in a cool oven for several hours, and then left to dry overnight in the oven after the oven is turned off. Baked meringue shells should not take on any color when they…
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All about meringue…
www.goodfoodgourmet.com I had been perusing many food blogs for about a year and a half before I decided to launch my own. In that time, I came across many dessert recipes that gave wrong information on use and procedure for making many different items. I am not saying that these people gave the bad info…