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meringue

US/məˈɹeɪ̯ŋ/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,766 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: meringues

Meringue is egg white and sugar whipped and baked crisp. A lemon meringue pie, pipe the meringue, a crisp meringue.

The whites will not whip if a speck of yolk or grease gets in, because fat stops the foam holding, which is why cooks separate eggs carefully. There are three kinds — French, Swiss and Italian — and they differ in how the sugar is added.

Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland 12:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of meringue

  1. 1nounmeringueEgg white and sugar whipped and baked crisp.B2+

    “The lemon pie was topped with a thick layer of golden meringue.”

meringue is a sweet.

Where it comes from

French meringue, of uncertain origin. The story linking it to the Swiss village of Meiringen is now doubted.

  1. Middle Dutch

    meringue — light evening meal

  2. French

    meringue

  3. English, today

    meringue

French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in and named for the Swiss village of Meiringen, but the term is now thought to derive instead from Middle Dutch meringue (“light evening meal”), of unclear origin:

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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meringue in the wild

  • Taking the form of a cake-like circular block of baked meringue, pavlova has a crisp crust and soft, light inside.

    Pavlova

  • Homemade meringues are often chewy and soft with a crisp exterior, while many commercial meringues are crisp throughout.

    Meringue

  • Lemon meringue pie is a dessert pie consisting of a shortened pastry base filled with lemon curd and topped with meringue.

    Lemon meringue pie

  • Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue.

    Baked Alaska

  • The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue.

    Baked Alaska

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.