Sweet
Kjelufki (Kruševo kisses)
Kruševo’s meringue kisses, egg white and sugar dried slowly in a low oven until crisp and still white.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 25 min
- Cook
- 30 min
- Total
- 55 min
- Fasting
- Not suitable
Ingredients 5 ingredients
Method
- Heat the oven to 130 °C and line two trays with baking paper. Wipe the bowl and the whisk with a cut lemon; the least trace of fat and the whites will not rise.
- Whisk the whites on their own until they are foamy and just hold a soft peak.
- Add the caster sugar a spoonful at a time, along with the vanilla sugar and the lemon juice, whisking without a break.
- Keep whisking for 10 to 15 minutes after the last of the sugar has gone in. Rub a little between your fingers: if it feels gritty the sugar has not dissolved and the kisses will weep syrup in the oven.
- If you are using walnuts, fold them in with as few strokes as you can manage.
- Pipe or spoon walnut-sized kisses onto the trays, leaving a finger’s width between them.
- Dry them in the oven for 25 to 30 minutes. They should be firm to the touch and still white; if they start to colour, drop the oven to 100 °C and give them longer.
- Turn the oven off and leave them inside with the door ajar until cold, then store them in a tin.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Vanilla sugar
- Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract, whisked in with the lemon juice.
- Caster sugar
- Granulated sugar blitzed for thirty seconds in a food processor; whole crystals will not dissolve in time and the kisses will weep.
