Name: Meringue a LA Creme
Ingredients: meringue shells; whipped cream; maraschino cherries

Meringue a LA Creme

Ingredients

meringue shells
whipped cream
maraschino cherries

Directions

Prepare meringue shells as for Easter eggs.
Fill each half with whipped cream and place a couple of maraschino cherries in the center.
Put both halves together.
Make an oblong border of whipped cream on the dish in a nest fashion.
Place the egg in the center and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.