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Eton mess is a dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, pieces of meringue and cream, which is traditionally served at Eton College's annual prize-giving celebration picnic on 4 June. One anecdotal story is that the dessert was invented when a Labrador accidentally sat on a picnic basket in the back of a car on the way to a picnic. An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are traditional.
A similar dessert is the Lancing mess, served throughout the year at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.
The word mess may refer to the appearance of the dish, or may be used in the sense of " serving of food; a course; a meal; a prepared dish of a specified kind of food." or " portion or serving of liquid or pulpy food such as milk, broth, porridge, boiled vegetables, etc."
Recipe
Ingredients
4 medium-sized meringues
280 ml double cream
50 g icing sugar
10 ml (1 tbsp) vanilla essence
150 ml Greek yoghurt
500 g strawberries
Method
- Rinse the strawberries, remove the tops and cut into halves.
- Break the meringues into pieces (not too small) and place into a bowl.
- Put the double cream, vanilla essence and icing sugar into a bowl and whip until reasonably stiff.
- Combine the cream, yoghurt, strawberries and meringue, being careful not to mash the meringue into pieces that are too small.
- Serve in bowls.
Notes
- "Glossary C–G". JoyofBaking.com. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- "Menus". Bell House Restaurant. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- Simpson, John, ed. (March 2002), "mess, n.", OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 2007-07-10.
External links
- Recipe for Eton mess by Antony Worral Thompson at BBC's Saturday Kitchen
- Recipe for Eton mess by Delia Smith from Delia Online
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