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Title: Forgotten Cookies
Categories: Christmas, Cookies
Yield: 12 Cookies

2 lg Egg whites;
- at room temperature
1 pn Fine sea salt
3 1/2 oz Caster sugar (100 g)
1 ts Corn flour
1 ts Cider vinegar or
- white wine vinegar
1/4 ts Ground cardamom
2 1/2 oz Mini dark chocolate chips
- (75 g)
2 1/2 oz Pistachios (75 g);
- finely chopped

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours

These little cookies--described by one friend as tasting like a cookie
within a cookie--are really a mixture between a meringue and a cookie.
Hence they've become known at home, where they're immensely popular,
as Merookies, and are ideal with a cup of coffee after dinner. They
are called "forgotten" as, just like the "Forgotten Pudding" in
Nigella Express, they are not baked, but put in a hot oven, which you
immediately turn off, leaving the cookies to bake in the fading
residual heat overnight. I find it all too easy actually to forget
them, and always put a post-it sticker on the oven to remind me
they're in there, so I don't burn them to a cinder by preheating the
oven to cook something else in it the next day.

Preheat the oven to 180?C/160?C Fan/Gas 4/350?F and line a large
baking tray with baking paper. Whisk together the egg whites and salt
in a grease-free bowl, until you have soft peaks. Whisk in the sugar
a little at a time until thick and gleaming.

By hand, fold in the corn flour, vinegar, and cardamom, then add the
chocolate chips and most of the pistachios and very gently fold these
in too.

With a spoon, drop mounded blobs of the mixture, 4 to 5 cm (2") in
diameter, onto the prepared tray. Sprinkle with the remaining
pistachios.

Put the cookies into the oven, shut the door and turn off the oven
immediately. Let the cookies sit in the turned-off oven overnight.

Recipe by Nigella Lawson

Recipe FROM:
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/forgotten_cookies_60368>

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