Picture a white little bite, crisp on top, that literally melts off your tongue in about two seconds. No chewing, no heaviness, just sugar and vanilla vanishing in your mouth. That is a meringue cookie done right, and when you put a plate of them on the table it empties before every other one! The wild part: four egg whites and one cup of sugar, and that is the entire list. No flour, no butter, no fat. None.<\/p>\n
You do not bake a meringue, you dry it. One hour in a very low oven, and then, instead of pulling the sheet out, you shut the oven off and leave the door closed. The cookies finish drying on their own for an hour or two while the oven coasts down. They never brown, they never crack, and the center goes properly dry. That is exactly why they are called forgotten cookies: you put them in and you forget about them.<\/p>\n
In a tin of Christmas cookies, everything is buttery, everything is dense, and by the third one it all tastes the same. These do the opposite. They are white, they are weightless, and they break up the monotony of the tray. On top of that they happen to be gluten free and dairy free without even trying, so you finally have something for the cousin who eats neither. And they keep for two weeks, which no other cookie in that tin can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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