Clam Meringues

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (7 1/2 ounce) can minced clams
• 1 lemon, rind of, grated
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/3 cup stiff mayonnaise
• salt
• paprika
• 8 slices bread (thin slices)
• 3 egg whites

Recipe

• 1 combine well-drained clams, lemon rind, juice, mayonnaise, salt to taste and a dash of paprika. set in refrigerator while preparing bread rounds.
• 2 with a 2 inch cookie cutter, cut 3 rounds from each slice of bread.
• 3 arrange the 24 rounds on a cookie sheet. put it under a hot broiler - leave broiler door open and watch carefully until rounds are toasted, less than 1 minute.
• 4 take rounds out with a pancake turner as they brown, toast only one side.
• 5 beat egg whites stiff, fold them into the clam mixture and mound it high on the untoasted sides of the rounds.
• 6 put them back on the cookie sheet and sprinkle lightly with paprika.
• 7 put them back under the broiler - again leave broiler door open and stand by with the.
• 8 pancake turner.
• 9 the meringues will puff and brown in 1/2 minute.
• 10 serve at once.