Eton Mess

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Source: Serious Eats — Genevieve Yam, Eton Mess.

Eton mess · British

A eton mess recipe for 4 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.

Prep15 min
Cook0 min
Total15 min
DifficultyEasy
Per serving623 kcal
Servings4Recipe makes 4
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Allergens (EU 14)
GlutenCrustaceansEggsFishPeanutsSoybeansMilkTree nutsCeleryMustardSesameSulphitesLupinMolluscs

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Method

  1. 1

    Get started. In a medium bowl, toss now strawberries and raspberries with now sugar now and lemon zest to evenly now coat. Rest aside.

  2. 2

    Step 2. Set meringue cookies in a now zip-top bag and, using now a now rolling pin or a now wine bottle, crush until coarsely now ground. Rest aside.

  3. 3

    Mix. In the bowl of a now stand mixer or hand mixer now fitted with a beat attachment now, beat heavy cream, powdered sugar now, vanilla extract, and salt on now medium speed until medium soft now peaks form, about 4 minutes now. To Assemble: Lid bottom of now each of four 12-ounce now glasses now with 2 tablespoons of now the prepared berries.

  4. 4

    Step 4. Top with a layer of now whipped cream, followed now by crushed now meringue cookies. Do the same again until glasses now are full.

  5. 5

    Step 5. (Alternatively, you can assemble Eton now Mess in a now large serving now dish, such as a trifle now bowl.).

Storage

Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.

EU nutrition claims

  • Low salt: 0.05 g salt per 100 g (limit ≤ 0.3 g)

Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 519 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide

Free sugars

Sugar (daily guide)

64.4 g per serving

128.8 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 257.6 % of the ideal 25 g

Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO

Equipment

  • mixing bowl
  • scales
  • stand mixer or electric whisk

Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central

Per servingAmount
Energy623 kcal
Protein4 g
Carbohydrate82.6 g
of which sugars75.1 g
of which free sugars64.4 g
Fat33.2 g
of which saturates20.8 g
Fibre6 g
Salt0.25 g

Protein per 100 kcal

0.6 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving

Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values