Eating lemon meringue cake is definitely an intense experience.
There’s the zing from the lemon that dangles rather dangerously around the fringe of your tongue while you bring your first bite. There’s the creamy sweet condensed milk that rushes in around the heels from the sharp sourness, which in turn, rather dramatically, gives method to the buttery crunch from the biscuit base (having a hint of saltiness) before your tastebuds are finally permitted to stay in to the gentleness from the soothing meringue topping.
Lemon meringue cake isn’t complete without a mug of tea&...
Or perhaps a tea party (thank
This is a somewhat classic South African recipe one packet of biscuits and something tin of condensed milk. It’s simple to bake and the best part is creating different meringue shapes (otherwise simply spoon it on loosely to create a ‘puffy-cloud’ topping).
PRE HEAT OVEN to 180 levels celsius
GREASE a tart tin with butter
CRUSH 1 packet Tennis biscuits (or any other coconut, syrup and butter biscuits) into fine pieces (my Mother accustomed to place the packet in the dish cloth after which bang the contents having a moving pin)
MELT 125 grams butter
COMBINE biscuits and butter and PRESS in to the cake dish (let it occur the fridge)
MIX 385 g/ 1 tin of Nestle condensed milk with 3 egg yolks and 125 ml of fresh lemon juice (place the egg-whites aside for that meringue topping)
WHISK three or four egg-whites until stiff after which progressively add 125 ml castor sugar and 15 ml cornflour (to stabilise the meringue). Whisk before the peaks are stiff and also the egg-whites are shiny
PIPE (or spoon on) the meringue to the filling
Bake at 180 levels for ten fifteen minutes or before the meringue is gently browned
Let it awesome before serving (eat within 24 hours or the very next day)
Variations place 1/2 can of cake apples or 3 sliced bananas around the biscuit base before flowing within the filling. Alternatively, mix the pulp of three fresh granadilla in to the condensed milk filling. For an additional zing, add some rind of 1 lemon towards the condensed milk filling.
