Eton Mess

Name: Eton Mess
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 ready-made meringues; 400ml double cream, whipped; 400g fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced; 2 tbsp icing sugar; 1 tbsp lemon juice

Crushed meringue, whipped cream and fresh strawberries — the quintessential British summer dessert. Folding rather than stirring, and leaving it deliberately messy and streaky, is the whole point of the name.

Total time

10 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

0 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

British

vegetariangluten-free

Ingredients

4ready-made meringues

400mldouble cream, whipped

400gfresh strawberries, hulled and sliced

2 tbspicing sugar

1 tbsplemon juice

Instructions

Toss strawberries with icing sugar and lemon juice. Rest 10 minutes.

Roughly crush meringues into large irregular pieces.

Fold meringue and strawberries into whipped cream — leave it messy and streaky.

Pile into glasses or bowls.

Serve immediately.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

496

Protein

2.6g

Fat

48.3g

Carbs

14.3g

Fiber

Sodium

28mg

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