Posted by Lou. The time is 10.40pm here in London, UK.
I got home tonight to discover that four eggs were about to expire - well, we know what you can do with four eggs!
So I...
Pre-heated the oven to one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees-celsius
Beat those mutha-fuckin' egg whites
Then added one and a quarter cups of castor sugar gradually whilst beating them more and more and more until it looked like a glossy bit of stiff heaven
Then I took a teaspoon of white vinegar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence and mixed them with a tablespoon of cornflour
Then I took a teaspoon of white vinegar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence and mixed them with a tablespoon of cornflour
Chucked that nasty looking mix in with the egg white and did what Michael Jackson did best (beat it!) until it couldn't be beaten any more (litearlly - the hand-beater start to spack out as it was too thick for them to rotate in)
I then lovingly put it into a small intimate circle on some baking paper on an oven tray (Jamie Oliver tip - use a dot of mixture under each corner of the paper to keep it in place) and put it into the oven, immediately turning the temperature down to one-hundred
I'm not a twat, so I didn't open that oven door even though temptation gripped me
Then an hour later I turned the oven off, opened the door slightly, and let the pavlova cool within
And was rewarded with this beautiful speciman:
You did me proud eggs, you did me proud.
I then lovingly put it into a small intimate circle on some baking paper on an oven tray (Jamie Oliver tip - use a dot of mixture under each corner of the paper to keep it in place) and put it into the oven, immediately turning the temperature down to one-hundred
I'm not a twat, so I didn't open that oven door even though temptation gripped me
Then an hour later I turned the oven off, opened the door slightly, and let the pavlova cool within
And was rewarded with this beautiful speciman:
You did me proud eggs, you did me proud.
Wow. I probably would've chucked them out the window at people snogging on the street or something.
But pavlove - fuck yeah!!
The most elegant pav that side of the equator ... cream and kiwi fruit being all that is needed.
One wee correction .... Jamie Oliver my eye.... my mother knew that trick back in 1953!!!!