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This quick and easy traditional English dessert is made from a mixture of whipped cream, strawberries, and meringue - either layered as a trifle or mixed together into a delicious mess. Until just recently, meringues haven't exactly been my cup of tea since they were too sweet for my taste as a standalone dessert. There are three traditional components of an Eton Mess, and those are meringue, whipped cream, and fresh fruit.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eton mess– an english dessert of meringue, cream and strawberries using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Eton Mess– An English dessert of Meringue, Cream and Strawberries:

1. Get FOR MERINGUE
2. Prepare egg whites at room temperature
3. Get granulated sugar
4. Get vanilla extract
5. Get salt
6. Get FOR BERRIES
7. Prepare fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
8. Take fresh blueberries
9. Get granulated sugar, divided use, half will be used for the strained strawberries the other half to sweeten the sliced strawberries and blueberries
10. Prepare FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM
11. Prepare heavy whipping cream
12. Get confectioners sugar
13. Take vanilla extract
14. Prepare unflavored gelatin
15. Make ready FOR GARNISH
16. Get chocolate shavings

STRAWBERRY MESS (ETON MESS) If you haven't heard of this dessert or tasted it, let me just tell you that it is pure yumminess in a dish. In true English style, the ingredients are simple but the taste is anything but. It is simply meringue cookies (homemade or store-bought), fresh whipped cream, and strawberries all combined together, hence. Eton Mess is a classic English dessert that's light, sweet, made with freshly whipped cream, juicy berries, and crushed, crispy vanilla meringue.

Steps to make Eton Mess– An English dessert of Meringue, Cream and Strawberries:

1. MAKE MERINGUES
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 275
3. In a large bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks, slowly add sugar, and salt and beat until stiff, add vanilla and beat in. Place 4 mounda of meringue on parchment paper. Smooth out into 1/4 inch rounds leaving a bit of space between them. Bake 1 hour, turn off oven keep door closed and leave until oven is cold, at least 2 hours. Remove from oven, cut between parchment keeping parchment attached and store in air tight containers. (keeping the parchment attached will keep the meringues from breaking until needed). This can be done up to 4 days in advance.
4. MAKE BERRIES
5. Place 3/4 of the strawberries in a blender and puree, strain out seeds, add 1/4 cup sugar to them, chill.
6. Combine remaing sliced strawberries and blueberries in a bowl, add remaing 1/4 cup sugar and let sit to extract juice than chill.
7. The berries can be prepared a day in advance
8. FOR WHIPPED CREAM
9. In a small heatproof bowl add 1 1/2 tablespoons cold water, add gelatin, soften 1 minute than place in a pan of simmering water just until dissolved and clear, remove to use while still liquid.
10. In a chilled bowl, whip cream to soft peaks add confectioners sugar, vanilla and liquid gelatin, beat until stiff.
11. Add about 1/4 cup of strawberrie puree and fold just to make a streaky look. Chill, because of the gelatin this whipped cream is stable abd should las a day or two.
12. TO ASSEMBLE ETON MESS
13. Right before serving, remive meringue from parchment, break into bite size pieces. Place in serving glass add some of the strawberrie blueberrie mix and some whipped cream and very gently fold, top with a bit more whipped cream, garnish with chocolate shavings and pieces of meringue.

This is bound to be your new favorite dessert for summer. This is a simple recipe (the hardest part is making the meringue) and all of the components can be prepared in advance. Traditionally the dish was served at Eton College but how it came to have the name is not clear. One story is a Labrador dog sat on a picnic basket in the back of a car and squashed a strawberry and meringue dessert. One thought was the "mess" was a rather delicious dessert, and the name stuck.

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