Meringue

Here are the events leading up to the creation of Meringue cookies.

1) Cassy watches Martha Stewart, and watches her put meringue on some fancy dessert
2) Cassy says to herself "I like meringue"
3) Cassy gets the urge to bake
4) Cassy searches for a recipe for meringue cookies
5) Cassy finds said recipe and proceeds to make the meringue
6)Cassy preheats oven to 250 degrees fareinheit... thats not very hot...
7) Unable to find the egg seperator, Cassy tries her hand at hand-seperation.
8) Seperation successful.
9) Cassy adds sugar and vanilla and a pinch of salt
10) Cassy beats the meringue.
11) While watching the mixture thicken, Cassy wonders who ever thought 'Hey, I wonder what will happen if I beat the heck out of egg whites?'
12) A good question, no?
13) The meringue has been beaten to perfection. It only took the better part of half an hour.
14) Cassy scoops the meringue onto baking sheets.
15) Cassy has created 20 cookies. The recipe told her it would make 36.
16) Cassy checks how long they need to bake and notes the time
17) 60 minutes! That is a long time to bake... maybe if the oven were hotter... no, better stick to the recipe.
18) Operation succesful.