Subject: Re: SC - Need help redacting candy recipe

[cclark at vicon.net]

Raoghnailt/Laura wrote:
>> As I said in another post, my semi-successful experiment tonight
>> resembled firm meringues.  According to Larousse, meringues were
>> invented by a French pastry chef in 1720.
>
>According to the OED, meringue first appeared in English in 1706 from the
>French.

Before which time the English already had several kinds of sweet egg-foam
biscuits. Larousse's account appears to be incomplete, to say the least.

Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon

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