Saturday 25 July 2015

If I only knew.

Since my dramatic reduction in sugar intake and given the needs for some sugar I found meringues. These are very costly for the weight of them. So I've been researching making them here at home.
It seems cooking egg whites and sugar is about the easiest thing one could make for dessert after pouring boiling water on jelly and spongecake.
Still I've yet to enter the baking fray, so it may well be a bit of hubris.


Now this is a building I've been trying the photograph for three years now, and I'd never even thought to put it into B&W. And it actually works this way.

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  1. I've never had/made the cookies, but the first dessert I ever learned to make (in a home economics class in high school) was a lemon meringue pie. Not a baker either, but I think the meringue is fun to make. It's like a science experiment. Making them at home also guarantees you're not getting anything else in those cookies that the shops/manufacturers might put in. I think they keep well also. You can make a batch and then freeze them for when you want one (or more). :)
    It's a beautiful shot. The sky, even in b&w, is breathtaking.
    The windows and doors are boarded up now. Did it used to be someone's home?

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  2. Locally it's called Bower's Cottage, and the forest I bring Jessy most days is Bower's Wood. But both house and forest belonged to this fellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clifden. The house was there since the early part of the 19th century at least, and perhaps earlier.
    Oh, the windows aren't just boarded up but blocked up with cement blocks making a solid wall. It's to prevent squatters. We've an odd system of laws.

    4 of the little nests are $3 in your money, and an 8 inch, 12 fricking dollars. I think I can make a months worth with 6 eggs and 500g of castor sugar. And yeah, I was thinking freezer too.

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    1. It's kind of sad that it's just sealed off, not being used. It looks like an interesting place.
      Those meringues look like a jumping off point for those macarons, too. I've never had one of those either, but they sure are pretty cookies. They're probably fun to make as well.

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    2. For some reason I can't nest the comment in Chrome.

      That house is truly tiny. It's really only two rooms either side of the door. Yes, there're notional rooms in a loft -upstairs is way too grand a term- but you are in a triangle.

      It's kinda silly teasing you about going to a doily festooned hotel when I'm seriously contemplating whipping eggwhites to stiff peaks and folding in castor sugar. :-)

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    3. I know right!?!? I was thinking the exact same thing! Silly girly cookies. ;)

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  3. Back in the day, I used to swap between rolls of color and black/white film and it always seemed that I had the wrong roll in at the wrong time and was always burning half of one roll just to put a fresh one in. But I ended up with lots of black and white photos that I love. Flash forward to modern times where I can convert any picture to black and white with the click of one button and I rarely do so. I need to remedy this.

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    1. I find translating it means I must move it up a stop and a half. But I get what you mean. Still I well remember the hell of never knowing what you were going to get when you bought a new brand of film back in the day. And here, you could have 100ISO in the box and and the day could be cloudy meaning you needed 400. And even Agfa ISO was different from Kodak was different from Fuji. We had a very good B&W film in Ilford though.
      I think you can become so connected to the camera that you need to change out/up thing some way for a week or a month to reengage the gears. I find changing to B&W is doing that and improving my shots overall.

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  4. I like the meringue cookies that are made in a cooling oven (we called them "forgotten" cookies), but never cared much for the type found on top of a pie.

    I love that photo! The house and setting are perfect in B&W!!

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    1. Thank you.

      What could be nice is that banana recipe of yours scooped into the little cups.

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    2. Now that's a thought. Yum!

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