What can I make with 6 egg whites that isn't meringue?

[bunjies]

Any ideas?

[OneLittleToddlingTerror]

Would love to know too as I usually throw them in the bin. Can't make that much meringue! I even have a bag of frozen for future meringues!

[ZZMum]

egg white omlettes can be nice - if you fill them up with stuff such as ham cheese and chillis.. I like to whisk egg whites to add to pancake mixtures to make them really light and fluffy - use 1 egg yolk with3 egg whites would be OK..

Macaroons are just egg white as are cocoanut biscuits

[civilfawlty]

Queen's pudding?

[wildfig]

if you've got a sugar thermometer, a mixer, and you don't mind the idea of gelatine, you can make homemade marshmallows, which always go down a treat and can be toasted over bonfires!

Hugh F-W's marshmallow recipe

[Bluestocking]

Souffle omelettes? Delia has a lemon one here.

[evilwem]

The hummingbird bakery lemon and poppyseed cake uses just egg whites, and is delicious.

[Allalonenow]

Ile flottante, use a ready made custard sauce such as Sainsburys TTD custard if you are short of time.

[bunjies]

OMG home made marshmallows sounds lush & I do have a sugar thermometer. The kids would go mental for them.

I do love a good iles flottante too so may have to make that as well . Thanks all.

[Mominatrix]

Macarons! Tricky to make (at least for me), but delicious.

[sommewhereelse]

chocolate mousse

[sommewhereelse]

Bunjies, what did you make that used up all the yolks? In our family the issue is 'what can I do with the yolks after I made that huge chocolate mousse'?

[ShowOfBloodyStumps]

It's really good for nappy rash. But you need a little baby really or a fetishistic adult or the balls to rush up to women with little babies and offer them egg white to smear on their offspring's bottoms.

Folk remedies I have. Cooking skills? Not so much.

[bunjies]

sommewhereelse - we had home made creme brulees last weekend.

showofbloodystumps - err, might give that one a miss this time, youngest baby is now 7 years old

Right off to get some gelatine.

[Kikithecat]

You could feed Madonna for approximately one week?

[ScienceRocks]

Almond macaroons - they aren't difficult at all. Basically egg whites, sugar, ground almonds and rose water whizzed in a food processor, then baked for about 15 minutes in a hit oven. Fab

[Allalonenow]

Can I just say, thank you Bunjies, for coming back on and replying to the thread. So often the OP never replies to the original post, and it all seems a bit of a waste of time.
It's so nice when there is a bit of feed back from the OP.

[wildfig]

marshmallows really are delicious when they're home made, and much easier than you'd think to make. They're also great little Christmas presents - a whole bag full costs pennies to make.

My own top tip, from sticky experience, is to get a good wide jug, the sort you mix batter in, to pour the gelatine/sugar mixture into the egg whites in a thin, directed stream. When you combine the molten sugar and the gelatine, it can froth up alarmingly - my normal Pyrex measuring jug doesn't contain the gloop as it erupts. I am still chipping bits of hardened sugar off my cabinets...

[bunjies]

You're scaring me now wildfig. I was hoping for this to be a nice, gentle activity to do with the girls. Not sure now!

I know what you mean Allalone - although sometimes I am guilty of not replying as I forget that I have started a thread.

[seeker]

A pretentious omelette?

[wildfig]

It's easy, honest! I'm just passing on my hard-won experience. The sugar has to be at soft-ball stage, so is hot - and when it mixes with the gelatine, it can bubble, so the bigger the jug you mix it in the better. Then you can pour it straight into the mixer, while the beater's going round. I spent a lot of time faffing about pouring the sugar into the gelatine, then pouring it all into a jug, blah, blah, blah...

Is really worth it. You will be the Willy Wonka of your whole street.

[bunjies]

Ok tried these and am slightly underwhelmed. I did use golden caster sugar as forgot to get granulated but the flavour is somewhat bland. So far only ds & dd2 are happy to eat them!

[wildfig]

Really? Oh no. Did you put some decent vanilla extract in? Or rosewater? I had to experiment with different kinds of gelatine to find the most undetectable, and often double the vanilla, but they vanish as soon as I make them - I do know a lot of very sweet-toothed people though...