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ETON MESS

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

450g of fresh strawberries
250ml of double cream
250g of meringue
1 tablespoon of white sugar

METHOD

Wash the strawberries, remove any stalks and chop them into quarters. Break or chop the meringue into rough 2cm (1 inch) pieces.

Pour the cream into a bowl. Lightly whip the cream. Don’t over-do it: it should still be pourable.

Add the meringue pieces, strawberries and sugar. Gently mix together and serve.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Use ready-made meringue, especially if it’s broken and reduced in price.

If you make your own meringue, this is the dish to practice with. If they weep, crack or even collapse, you can still use them in this. However, you do have to make it a day in advance.

For the romantic version, top with a large whole strawberry and offer this to your partner.

Authentic Eton mess uses strawberries, but other summer fruits work well.

Even Heston Blumenthal has had to concede that Eton mess is “quite simply impossible to improve upon”.

HISTORICAL NOTES

Eton mess originated at Eton College in the 1930’s, when a mixture of strawberries or bananas with cream or ice cream, all stirred together (hence the name "mess"), was served in the school’s “sock shop” (tuck shop). One anecdotal story is that it was ‘invented’ by a Labrador dog, when it sat on a picnic basket containing strawberries and cream in the back of a car. Losing the bananas and ice cream, but gaining the meringue, it has evolved into the unashamedly wicked and quintessentially English summer dessert. It is traditionally served at Eton College's annual prize-giving celebration picnic on what is still called the "Fourth of June”, despite now actually taking place on the last Wednesday in May.

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