Day SEVEN. Meringue or Merenge.

Day SEVEN. Meringue or Merenge. Once upon a time Michelle stayed after school to use the wifi to write about her day. Once it was all written, she thought that she clicked select all, but instead clicked delete accidentaly and it all disappeared. As she did this in "Notes" on her iPad, there was no undo button. Lesson learned. Use google docs or evernote from now on. Now, shall we dance? Today was all about Meringues and Pastry Cremes. There are three types of Meringues, French, Italian, and Swiss. Italian is also known as Seven Minute Frosting from Grandma Lewis. I never knen I was making a meringue this entire time. Ha! Funny side note, tonight after coming home, I realized that my recipe instructions I had written were backwards. In the section for Swiss Meringue, I wrote the process for French meringue and vise versa. No wonder I was so confused in cooking class when I wondered why everyone was making what i thought was french, but it really was italian. For our observation classes, we only have a sheet of paper with the name of the recipe and the ingredients. It is up to us to write the process/instructions down for each. Let me talk about the baked kind of meringue. 1. I will never understand people who like light airy bits of nothing to eat. 2. whomever invented them must have been pretty bored and needed to make a time consuming product for not much satisfaction. Nevertheless I made my first cooked meringues today. I need to work on my piping skills, there is much need to practice on those. A girl in my class told the chef that she had been practicing before coming to school. I didnt know meringues were on the list and thought piping skills would be taught. Another girl asked how to crack and seperate an egg. Ahhhh, what? True. It happend. Lets say I am in the middle of these two girls. Pastry Cremes. Did you know there is Pastry Creme that is the base for at least four more cremes? We made them, other than putting them in between meringues I wouldnt know what to do with them, as they are all different textures of the same thick pudding. At least they tasted better than the meringues. Oh! Let me just say I love my kitchen Aid! It is an Aid for a reason. I did however manage a lot of whipping by hand today, and whipped cream by hand...a task only left to mixers in the past, only needed an ice bath and some muscle development to work. Kitchen Aid. You're great. And there you have it my delightful day of things I will make the rest of my life for people with no taste buds prefering the weaker flavors of the universe.