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An Eton mess.

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. According to Robin Weir in Recipes from the Dairy (1995), Eton mess was served in the 1930s in the school's "sock shop", and was originally made with either strawberries or bananas mixed with ice-cream or cream. Meringue was a later addition, and may have been an innovation by Michael Smith, the author of Fine English Cookery (1973). An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are regarded as more 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

  1. Rinse the strawberries, remove the tops and cut into halves.
  2. Break the meringues into pieces (not too small) and place into a bowl.
  3. Put the double cream, vanilla essence and icing sugar into a bowl and whip until reasonably stiff.
  4. Combine the cream, yoghurt, strawberries and meringue, being careful not to mash the meringue into pieces that are too small.
  5. Serve in bowls.

Notes

  1. "Glossary C–G". JoyofBaking.com. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  2. "Menus". Bell House Restaurant. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  3. Weir, Robin (1995). Recipes from the Dairy. London: National Trust. ISBN 0707802431. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. Blumenthal, Heston (2003-06-28). "No messing". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Smith, Michael (1973). Fine English Cookery. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571103499. See Dupleix, Jill (2004-06-03). "Eton mess : Strawberries and cream make a superb summer pudding for lazy, hazy days". The Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. A recipe by Heston Blumenthal, for instance, uses bananas: see Blumenthal, Heston (2006-02-12). "Eton mess : Look, no berries – this Eton mess is a crispy, creamy, zingy heap of a treat". The Sunday Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. Simpson, John, ed. (March 2002), "mess, n.", OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 2007-07-10.

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