Classic Meringue Cookies

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2008

SERVESMakes 48 small cookies

TIME1½ hours, plus 1 hour 10 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To get a crisp meringue cookie that would dissolve instantly in the mouth, we found that timing was everything. The sugar could be added only when the whites had been whipped enough to gain volume but still had enough water left in them for...

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