Tillie O'Toole's Meringues

) Tillie O'Toole's Meringues Contributed by a Helen. Thanks for sending this in! dtk-kids.com Ingredients:  • 4 egg whites  • 1 cup castor sugar (icing sugar)  • pink and green food coloring (optional)  • whipped cream Directions:  1.  Beat the egg whites until stiff but not yet dry.  2.  Fold in half the sugar and beat again until the mixture will stand in a firm dry peak.  3.  Fold the remaining sugar in carefully.  4.  Divide the mixture into three bowls.  5.  Add a few drops of pink food coloring to one and a few drops of green to the second, leaving the third      one white. Mix both to a delicate pale color.  6.  Line a baking tray with parchment paper or tinfoil and spoon blobs of mixture on to the top.  7.  Bake in a preheated oven at 200' F. (100' C/ gas mark 1/4) for about 4 (four) hours.  8.  Allow to cool, then sandwich together in pairs with whipped cream.