Traditional Pavlova
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Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- 3/4 cup caster (superfine) sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1/4 tsp vanilla (omit if you don't use vanilla during Passover)
- 1/2 tsp potato starch
- whipped cream
- fresh fruit
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250° F and set oven rack to the middle position.
- Beat the egg whites and when soft peaks form add sugar very gradually.
- Continue to beat and when very stiff slowly add salt, vinegar and vanilla.
- Add the potato starch and keep beating until the mixture is really glossy and will stand up with a knife.
- Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Tip the mixture into the center of the cookie sheet and spread it into a circle about 8"-9" in diameter. Leave a slight depression in the center area.
- Put cookie sheet in oven, bake for 1 hour, then turn off oven and leave the pavlova in it until the oven is cooled.
- Put on serving plate and top with whipped cream and then cover with whatever fruit is in season.