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In this week's lab we made a lemon meringue pie. Video Reflection: In making the meringue, egg whites mixed with cream of tartar are beaten with an electric hand mixer until soft peaks in the foam are visible:   Sugar is then gradually added until the peaks become more firm and defined:   Afterwards you can set the meringue aside while preparing the pie's filling. To make the filling, begin by mixing the cornstarch, flour, salt, sugar, and water. The mixture should look like this: After heating to a boil while stirring, the mixture should become thick and almost glue-like:   Remove the mixture from the heat. Take a few table spoons and mix with the egg yolks. Pour the now-warm egg yolk mixture back into the sauce pan. Bring to a boil and cook for 1-2 minutes:   While the filling is still hot, fill the pie crust and spread the meringue on top evenly. The pink you see is strawberry donut crumbs.   Bake for about 20 minutes until meringue starts

Reflection Video Cake # 1: Tall and Light Cake: 1. Ingredients and prep (Ingredients shown amount to 1 cake. They were measured twice) * : * Not pictured: 1 1/3 cup of sugar & 1 stick of unsalted butter (room temparature 1 1/2 cup of cake flour (low-protein): 1/2 cup of room temperature butter milk: 1/3 cup vegetable oil: 1 1/2 TSP of baking powder: 1/2 TSP salt: 1 TSP vanilla extract: 5 eggs, 2 full eggs and 3 egg yolks, all at room temperature: 2. Preparation: The vanilla and buttermilk are mixed together: The salt, baking powder, and flour are lightly mixed together: 3. Cream the butter with a handmixer: At a medium speed the mixer creams the butter, giving it a lighter color and creamy consistency At the end of creaming my butter looked like this:      4. After creaming, add sugar & eggs: First sugar is introduced into the creamed butter: It's important to scrape the sides back into the mixture periodi