Lemon and Ginger Tea Meringues

This recipe was inspired by the egg foams part of Dr Heve This's lecture I wrote about in my Science of Cooking post . It makes an amazing amount of the most beautiful melt-in-your-mouth meringues from very little ingredients.

Ingredients:

(Makes about 50)

For the meringue:

100g caster sugar

2 egg whites
75ml hot water
1 lemon and ginger tea bag

2 tsp lemon juice

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 120 C
Make the tea buy putting tea bag in the hot water.

While the tea cools, whisk the egg whites, sugar and lemon into soft peaks.

Then slowly add the tea and whisk until very stiff.

Pipe small whirls of meringue mix (about 6cm diameter) onto a non-stick baking sheet.

Bake in the oven for 1 1/4 mins until the meringue in completely dry.