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Florence
16:03
normally either you whisk the egg yolk with the sugar or with egg white read your receipe. just by looking at it you can see if its fluffy its kind like thicken cream

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:04
egg white
16:04
w sugar
16:04
i'm trying to make a meringue
16:04
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/recipe.asp?article=210

Florence
16:04
If its meringue than you beat with sugar

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:05
yaa
16:05
i know
16:05
but what do u mean when its stiff

Florence
16:06
for cakes normally you beat eggs yolk with sugar and beat the whites separately than you have to fold in the flour with your hands with upward mixing

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:07
i'm not baking a CAKE technically
16:07
i'm making a MERINGUE
16:07
GRR
16:07
how do u know when it's STIFF

Florence
16:07
i know am telling you i

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:07
haha ur not answering my qn!!!
16:07
hahahah what on earth is upward mixing

Florence
16:09
i told you can see when its stiff it very fluffy and it doesnt drip off from the whisk didnt i tell you that? when you turn the whisk the tip has to form a curl mah

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:09
that is soft peaks!!
16:10
then how does it become stiff??

Florence
16:11
when its stiff the whole mixing bowl would be full dont overbeat

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:11
WHAT?
16:11
the bowl will be full.

Florence
16:11
ya

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:11
means it's stiff??

Florence
16:11
ha nah (OMG this is priceless. HA NAH!!)

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:12
?? what if my bowl is too small
16:12
and it overflows
16:12
??
16:12
then
16:12
wont it be premature stiffness

Florence
16:12
no lah how big is your mixer? as big as my kitchen aid

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:13
no
16:13
i am
16:13
mixing it by hand

Florence
16:13
OMG you have to whisk a very long time till you hand gets tired

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:13
i know hahaha

Florence
16:13
keep on whisking then

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:14
hahahahha

Florence
16:14
you should be studying why are you at the pantry

vanessa (: I HATE POLITICS
16:15
i am not at the pantry!
OMG my MOM cracks me up. This is her maiden MSN experience lol.

EDIT: 3 HOURS LATER.



The meringue didn't turn out as well as I'd have liked it to though.. meringues are supposed to be crispy but well it was crisp on the outside but squishy inside. Pretty strange stodgy texture but yummy nonetheless. Oh well. I shouldn't have gotten tinned raspberries cos they came in juice and were kinda mushy (I dropped one on the floor and it literally SMASHED). I really don't see where I went wrong - followed the recipe perfectly but yet it's still a bit squidgy. Gahhh. At least I didn't kill anyone. Ahh anyway, Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova, everyone.
Vanessa Lim 4:11 p. m.