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Eton mess

Meringue broken into cream and strawberries. Deliberately untidy.

Eton mess
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Five minutes

10 minutes · serves 4 · Very easy

What you need

  • 400g strawberries
  • 300ml double cream
  • 4 meringue nests
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 lemon

What you do

  1. 1Crush a third of the strawberries with the icing sugar and a squeeze of lemon to make a rough sauce. Leave it 10 minutes to go syrupy.
  2. 2Chop the rest.
  3. 3Whip the cream to soft peaks — it must not be stiff or the mess will not fold.
  4. 4Break the meringue in by hand, in uneven pieces, then fold everything together twice only. Two folds. It should be streaked, not pink.

With roasted rhubarb

40 minutes · serves 4 · Easy

What you need

  • 400g rhubarb
  • 80g sugar
  • 1 orange
  • Cream
  • Meringues

What you do

  1. 1Roast the rhubarb with the sugar and orange juice at 180C for 20 minutes, then cool.
  2. 2Fold through whipped cream and broken meringue as above.