Wow what a day. Some of us in class who had to go to the president’s orientation spent a lot of time playing catch up today. We made more tart dough using similar methods we had before, we formed tarts. We also put the finishing touches on a lot of tarts, which involved putting fruit on them and Italian meringue.
Italian meringue is a cooked meringue and is made by heating sugar and water to a syrup and pouring it into egg whites and sugar that have been whipped to a soft peek. Continue to whisk in a Kitchen Aid until it is thick and silky. The heat from the syrup cooks the egg white as it whisks. We piped the meringue on top of the tarts and then took a propane torch to them to brown the tops. We also made tarts topped with that orange cream stuff we made a few days ago, we put sugar on top of those and passed the torch over it to give it a caramelized look and flavor.
We started on some other tarts that I was going to tell you about but it is late and my mother insists that I wrap this up and stop making so much noise, I don’t know what she means by that because I am just sitting on a chair typing, but apparently it’s noisy.
I will try and type more tomorrow and answer some of the questions that have been asked. Till then.
If I seem kind of surly, it's because I am being kind of surly. it's been a long night.
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