Eton Mess
Eton Mess takes about 15 min and serves 4. It needs 6 ingredients: strawberries, caster sugar, double cream, vanilla extract, meringue nests, and lemon. It is rated easy to make.
- Total time
- 15 min
- Serves
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
Ingredients
- 500 g strawberries, hulled
- 40 g caster sugar
- 400 ml double cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 150 g shop-bought meringues, broken up
- juice of half a lemon
Method
Macerate
Crush a third of the strawberries with the sugar and lemon juice and leave for ten minutes until syrupy. Quarter the rest.
10 minTaste the fruit
Strawberries vary enormously. Taste and add more sugar or lemon until they are sharply sweet — this is the only seasoning in the dish.
Whip the cream
Whip the cream with the vanilla to soft peaks only. Stiff cream turns the mess claggy rather than billowy.
Fold, barely
Fold the crushed fruit, whole pieces and broken meringue through the cream in about three strokes. Assemble at the last minute — the meringue dissolves within twenty minutes.
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