Happy St Georges Day everyone! To celebrate, have a go at this traditional Eton mess recipe at home!.
If you are looking for a traditional English desert, it doesn’t get any more classic than an Eton mess! This fantastic recipe from great British chefs will leave your mouth watering! The brilliant combination of crispy meringue with the sweetness of the strawberry is hard to say no to! This is a very simple desert, but it’s incredibly hard to beat for flavour!
Step 1-Pre heat your oven to 110 degrees celcius and line to meringue trays or baking trays with baking paper. Add the egg whites and a pinch of salt to a mixing bowl and whip with a wire whisk. Ensure to use a light whisk rather than a heavy one as it will keep the air in the meringue mixture.
Step 2-As you are whisking the mixture, add the caster sugar in to the mixture slowly. This should make your egg whites become stiff and looking ready to bake.
Step 3- Use a spatula to add the mixture to the baking trays bit by bit. Add to the oven and allow the meringues to completely dry up and crisp. This may take a few hours, so after the first hour, check the meringues regularly to see how they look. You will know the meringues are ready when you tap them and they sound hollow.
Step 4-Place the double cream in to a food mixer and whisk it gently. You could add the leftover vanilla seeds here as well as icing sugar, but this is not compulsory. Add half the strawberries to the cream mixture as well as most of the cooked meringue (but not all of it). Ensure you break the meringue in to one inch sized pieces when adding it.
Step 5- To assemble the meringue start layering the cream mixture in to whatever you plan to serve them in (glasses) followed by a layer or meringue and strawberries. Keep alternating until full.
Step 6- Finish off by sprinkling some more strawberries and a dusting of meringue! That’s it, this traditional eton mess is ready to enjoy!
