Shortbread pie with Italian meringue and cherries

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients for meringue.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and send the mixture to the fire. Stir thoroughly so that the sugar is completely dissolved.

3. Step 3:

   

   Bring the mixture to a boil, if there is a cooking thermometer, then bring the mixture to 120 C, and if there is no thermometer, then boil the syrup for about 5 minutes after boiling.

4. Step 4:

   

   When the syrup boils, start whipping the whites. They need to be beaten to soft peaks.

5. Step 5:

   

   Without stopping whipping, pour the hot syrup in a thin stream directly onto the working blades of the mixer.

6. Step 6:

   

   After all the syrup has been poured in, beat the mixture until it cools. As a result, it turns out a very dense, shiny mass. The meringue is ready. This meringue is very stable, it holds its shape perfectly. If desired, you can make meringue from it, or you can use it as a cream.

7. Step 7:

   

   I made a pie with her. For the pie, shortbread dough (I cooked according to this recipe http://eda-recepty.com/cooking/10833-linskii-pirog-s-orehami , only reduced the amount of powdered sugar, since the meringue is sweet enough) we put it in a mold, prick it with a fork.

9. Step 8:

   

   On top of the form with the dough, cover with a sheet of parchment paper and fill the form with beans (peas). Bake the basket at 190 C for about 10-15 minutes with beans, then remove the load and bake for another 10 minutes (the basket should be completely baked, focus on your oven, you may need more or less time).

10. Step 9:

    

    While the form is baked, we will prepare the filling. I used canned cherries, but if there are no cherries, you can just use berry jam, only it is desirable that the jam was sour.

11. Step 10:

    

    For the cherry filling, pour 200 cups of syrup (50 g set aside) from the cherries into a saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil, dilute the starch with the syrup left and pour a thin trickle into the boiling syrup. It will thicken quickly. Add the cherries, mix and turn off. The filling is ready.

12. Step 11:

    

    We put the filling in the finished basket from the shortbread dough.

13. Step 12:

    

    We put the meringue in a pastry bag and cover the filling on top.

14. Step 13:

    

    We send the pie to the oven preheated to 230 C for 5-7 minutes, well, or who has what kind of oven. The meringue should be slightly gilded on the outside and dry, but inside it will remain tender and airy. like a souffle. Let the pie cool completely and serve it to the table. Bon appetit!