Marguerites
Ingredients
- 1 large egg white
- 14 c sugar
- salt
- 14 c coarsely ground nut meats
- 18 saltines
- 1 tsp vanilla
Directions
- Beat egg white with
- dash of salt until bent over peaks form when beater is slowly withdrawn
- Beat in sugar thoroughly one tablespoon at a
- time
- add
- vanilla
- Mixture
- will be thick and glossy
- Fold
- in
- nuts
- Drop a heaping teaspoonful of the meringue in a mound
- in the center of each cracker
- Do not spread
- Bake on
- ungreased
- cookie
- sheetin slow 325 oven 15 minutes or until
- lightly
- browned
- Allow to cool and recrisp before serving
- Good
- 10
- minutesor
- several
- hours after baking
- Meringue will be soft or chewy not crisp