Meringue.—Beat the whites of four fresh eggs till stiff with a tiny pinch of salt, then mix in lightly 9oz. to 10oz. of caster sugar. Have ready a clean baking tin, previously warmed, and rubbed over with white wax, and force the meringue out on this with a plain pipe and bag, pressing it out in a kind of snail-shell cone, and bake these cakes in an oven too slack to do more than crisp them. If preferred coloured, a drop of any colouring to taste may be added to the meringue; or, again, when shaped they may