Since life is strange right now, I have nothing relevant to post right now... so instead a re-post/edit of one of my favorite desserts
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ETON MESS
Eton mess is a type of dessert that I have seen around the internet many times and thought: Yum!
I looked at a number of different recipes and adapted them for this experiment. Luckily I had my mom to assist in this culinary venture.
First, the day before we planned to make the actually dessert, I made a batch of meringues.
(2018 note- I have gotten so much better at making meringue cookies, these look sad in comparison)
They do not look perfect but they taste great and anyway they get crumbled.
I used the same recipe that I made for the Les Miserables meringue cookies for the Tony awards. I just didn't use a bag to form them, I just plopped them onto a baking sheet with a spoon. I used this recipe.
Homemade whipping cream
This is my mom's specialty. It is basically heavy whipping cream, sugar and vanilla whipped together for what seems like ages. She doesn't even need to measure the ingredients which makes it difficult to share her recipe.
The recipes I read online for Eton Mess kept calling for double cream. I have never seen double cream in any store around here so heavy whipping cream seemed like a good substitute. Plus we use the homemade vanilla that we started a few years ago. Its a bottle of Vodka and split vanilla beans that sat in the dark and was shaken once a day for a few months until it became the best vanilla ever.
The other ingredient for Eton Mess is strawberries. Most recipes called for these strawberries to have sugar added and let sit until they became a sugary syrup. Some recipes said to smash the fresh strawberries.
We just bought a container of frozen strawberries already in sugar and called it good. We only had a few hours that she could hang at my house that day so some skimping was required.
Gathering all the ingredients together we started layering them in our glasses. A layer of crumbled meringue, some whipping cream, strawberries and repeat.
The verdict: Delicious
I do not know if this would be considered authentic Eton Mess. Regardless they came out so good.
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