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Gimme some (brown) sugar baby...

I love me some brown sugar meringues. They remind me of my childhood when Marina's mother would make them and I would swap anything, ANYTHING for one of them at lunchtime. They were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside and they were amazingly delicious. crunchily delicious My mother didn't make anything like this, in fact my mother did not bake at all. She was of the hippie stir fry variety of mother - she occasionally whipped up creamed rice, rice pudding and lemon delicious pudding. Cakes, no. It's possible that the reason why I bake so much is linked to some repressed desire for a different childhood - or because I like cake. A bit of both. Good session guys! I still love meringues and I make them from time to time as a sort of peace offering to my Dad who cannot have gluten and to whet all my brimming crunchy/soft desires. Recipe (no idea where I go this from - online somewhere) 100g castor sugar (I just watched Some Like it Hot again and each t