meringue powder - help!

cythren

Help!

This weekend I'm making two gingerbread houses for a couple of parties this week. For the icing (Royal Icing), I need meringue powder. Can't find it anywhere! Anyone know where to find it in the neighborhood, or even in Manhattan?

dw438

you might have to shlep over to fairway in red hook.

hermitage68

meringue is egg whites ans sugar
try egg whites , some lemon to "cook" the egg and powdered sugar

cythren

hermitage68 wrote: meringue is egg whites ans sugar
try egg whites , some lemon to "cook" the egg and powdered sugar

I'd use raw egg whites, but don't want to risk giving my coworkers food poisoning! May have to trek to Fairway. Sigh.

anonymous

There is a cake decorating store on Washinton between Prospect and St Marks. If they are open today, they will have everything you need.

doctorj

cythren wrote:
I'd use raw egg whites, but don't want to risk giving my coworkers food poisoning!

Seems to me that if the eggs are reasonably fresh, and if you blanch the shells for a few seconds in boiling water and then out into cold, and since you're baking the meringue anyway, your chances of contaminated egg whites are pretty negligible.

quijibo

having grown up consuming my fair share of dominican meringue cakes
--i'd say meringue is pretty safe

stacey

Key Food on 5th Avenue has it

bklyntransplant

There's a place in Manhattan (maybe in the 20s?), NY Cake, that has all of that stuff...and on 5th Ave and 80th St in Bay Ridge, there's a cake- and confectionary-making shop.

quijibo

oh man. i grew up with homemade meringue made of egg whites gently beaten to the right froth

next thing you know kids are gonna start asking for "pop-tart" mix
--so they can make authentic home-made pop-tarts #-o

cythren

Meringue is cooked, but royal icing is not cooked. I'm making icing. The stuff is called meringue powder, but it can be used for other recipes too.

Found something similar to meringue powder (called "Just Whites") at the Key Food on Washington!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Good to know about that cake store on Washington.