Jan 12, 2023
I need for everyone to know that I made four pavlovas - each requiring 4-6 egg-whites and tbh i put most of the yolks down the drain - and I did EVERYTHING right, I got fresh eggs, I timed myself on the blender, I used cream of tartar instead of vinegar to stabilize it, I made my own icing sugar, I stared longingly at the oven for hours at a time - before finding out that you can't make pavlovas when it's humid.
This is a traditional Christmas desert. In the sub-tropics. On the coast. In a drafty old timber house.
The main thing I have to say is that New Zealand definitely invented the pavlova.
