Antonia  +  97440 Sun, 08 May 05 09:26 PM What does it mean: beat egg whites until soft/stiff peaks are formed? I suppose stiff peaks are when you beat egg whites so much that you form a ''snow'' and if you turn the bowl, ''the snow'' won't fall. What is soft peak then? Thanks Antonia Joined on Fri, Mar 11 2005 Contributing Member 1,266

	LanguageLover  +  97474 Mon, 09 May 05 12:13 AM Imagine a mountain chain with several snow-capped peaks. That would be the beaten eggs, the surfuce won't be even, will it? Stiff here means exactly what you described. And the peaks are soft since if you touch them with the finger, it would be soft, tather than a liquid touch. I hope that the explanation is clear. And that was only my guess. Good luck, LanguageLover Joined on Fri, Feb 25 2005 Contributing Member 1,507 The similarities among the languages are more than their differences!

	khoff  +  97553 Mon, 09 May 05 05:21 AM Soft peaks is an earlier stage than stiff peaks. You are making a meringue. You stop to test it by using a spoon to lift up a little mountain. If the top of the mountain is rounded, or bends over, that is the soft peak stage. If you can get a point to stand straight up, that is the stiff peak stage. khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,272 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)

	Mister Micawber  +  97638 Mon, 09 May 05 11:51 AM Gee, that thread title was certainly intriguing. Imagine my disappointment to find that it was just another culinary discussion. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,805 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

	LanguageLover  +  97655 Mon, 09 May 05 01:33 PM Hi Mr M., Don't these threads make your mouth water? They do that to me, especially the desert-related ones! If you are also a greedy, you can confesse here, I won't tell a soul! Have a good time, LanguageLover

	LanguageLover  +  97668 Mon, 09 May 05 02:05 PM Ha ha. I am not. I've learned a lot myself, and that was of an area that a foreigner can't explore easily without the help of the natives. Actually it encouraged me to think about translating something that has been long in my back burner. I'm fascinated by the power of herbs and vegetables as alternative medication. I've collected some resources on the web, and I wanna translate them to Persian. However, I have a similar problem to yours, you can't find many of them in Iran, though the Iranian culture is rich in this aspect, just sometimes they use different plants that grow in Iran and therte are a lot which do not grow in Iran! Anyway, I'd like to give it a try, at least for my own interest. Don't worry Mr P. and Mr M., I am not going to start the new series of vegetable-plants threads soon, since I have lots of other things to do before getting to that! Cheers, LanguageLover