COOKING corner
Mary Margret Daughtridge
Mary Margret’s Macaroons
(to cure* what ails you)
Yields about 30
A
friend told me that macaroons were a folk remedy for some kind of digestive distress. The Archway brand was specified.
I was intrigued. However, when I read the package ingredients I saw Archway macaroons contained cornstarch, a no-no
for me. The other ingredients were egg white, sugar, vanilla, salt, so I decided to try to replicate the macaroons without
the cornstarch.
My cookies turned out much lighter and airier than most store-bought macaroons – a fascinating combination of melt-in-
your-mouth, lightly crispy outside, and lightly chewy on the inside. I don’t know if these macaroons are as therapeutic as Arch-
way’s, but they are delicious and—taken with coffee and the company of a good friend—will almost certainly make you feel
better.
Preparation time: 10 minutes plus baking time
Preheat oven to 300
GLUTEN-FREE
Grease cookie sheet.
Ingredients:
Whites of 2 eggs
RECIPE
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 (or more) teaspoon vanilla
dash salt
2 tablespoons tapioca flour
3/4 to 1 cup dried shredded coconut
Directions:
Beat whites at low speed until foamy. Increase speed and add sugar a little at a time until stiff peaks form.
Add vanilla and salt. Beat in vanilla and salt just until incorporated. (5 seconds)
Sprinkle tapioca flour over meringue; sprinkle the coconut. Using a spatula, fold dry ingredients into the meringue.
Drop by teaspoons 2 inches apart onto well–greased cookie sheet.
Bake 25-30 minutes until crispy
outside and lightly browned.
Remove to wire rack and allow to
cool.
Store in airtight container at room
temperature.
Delicious still warm from the oven,
but just as good cool, and
they keep well for 4 days.
When she's not heating up the oven to
bake something gluten-free, Greensboro
writer Mary Margret Daughtridge is
steaming up the pages of romance novels
starring hunky SEALs and the tough-
cookie heroines who can take them on.
Look for SEALed With a Ring, coming in
March. Visit
www.MaryMargret.com or
www.SealedSeries.com
FEBRUARY 2010
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