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Name: Eton mess
Prep time: 4 h 55 min
Total time: 4 h 55 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 2 egg whites; 100 g caster sugar; 200 g strawberries; 200 ml liquid cream; 30 g Vanilla sugar

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Eton mess

Behind this strange name there lurks a delicious traditional English dessert made of meringues, strawberries and cream.

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Last modified on: July 25^th 2010

For 4 people, you will need:

1 2 egg whites
2 100 g caster sugar
3 200 g strawberries
4 200 ml liquid cream
5 30 g Vanilla sugar
Total weight: 590 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 4 hours 17 min.

Prepare meringues with 2 egg whites and 100 g caster sugar. Shape them by piping with a forcing bag if possible, to make little meringues about the size of a strawberry.

Stage 2 - 15 min.

Prepare 200 g strawberries and cut into 2 or 4 according to their size. Ideally the pieces should be about the same size as the meringues.

Stage 3 - 20 min.

Prepare the chantilly (whipped cream) with 200 ml liquid cream and 30 g Vanilla sugar.

Tip the strawberries, cream and meringues into a bowl,.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Mix gently.

Stage 5

And serve immediately.

Remarks

This dessert cannot be kept waiting otherwise the meringues go soft and it deteriorates into a "mess" worthy of the name!

The word "mess", used humorously here, originally came from the French word "mets" (dish).

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 2.84 €
Per person : 0.71 €

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Source

Home-made.

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This recipe use (among others)

	Strawberries: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Strawberry-mint sorbet, You should not soak strawberries in water, Strawberry, kiwi and mascarpone verrines, Fraisier (French strawberry cake), Strawberry and rhubarb crumble, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apricot blancmange, Salmon with sorrel, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Crème de foie gras, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Flognarde, Apricot blancmange, Rice pudding with fruit and nuts, Lemon creams, Pavlova, ... All
	Vanilla sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate cake, Apricot fool, Toasted almond cake, Stewed apricots, Crêpes Suzette, ... All

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