Kelly 's recipe for Meringues.                                                     
 3 egg whites, one quarter tsp cream of tartar,
one eight teaspoon salt, mix with beater on
 high till soft peaks form.
Add half a cup of sugar only 2 tbsp's at a time,
giving the sugar time to dissolve.
Add one tsp vanilla. keep mixing till the peaks stand up.
Then I put mixture in a piping bag and piped star shapes
 about 3 cm long. I piped them on foil lined cookie sheets.
Put them in a 200 degree oven for one hour.
 Let them cool and remove them.
They are supposed to stay good refrigerated for up to one week.
from Kelly Norman.     

 

 

alternately pipe the shape of a round or oval  filling it from outside to the middle .  then cook as per usual . several of these are great   for the above Brazilian recipe