Soft and billowy or sweet and crisp, meringue is a chameleon in the kitchen: Use it as a dessert topping, a magic mix-in that gives rise to dense cakes, even as cookie-like crumbles that lend crunch ...

Soft and billowy or sweet and crisp, meringue is a cooking chameleon. It's made of modest ingredients -- stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar at its most basic -- and, with seemingly endless variations ...