Eton mess
- Vegetarian
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Less suited as a snack.
British no-cook cold dessert: sugared, partly crushed strawberries, whipped cream and broken ready-made meringues loosely folded together in glasses; 6 glasses.
6 servingsFinal yield 1,025 g
Ingredients
- 500 gStrawberries, raw
- 25 gSugars, granulated
- 400 gCream, fluid, heavy whipping
- 100 gMeringues
Method
- Quarter the strawberries (500 g hulled) and crush 150 g of them with a fork to a coarse purée.
- Toss all the strawberries with 25 g sugar and leave for 10 minutes to release their juice.
- Whip 400 g chilled cream to soft peaks.
- Break 100 g meringues into pieces of about 2 cm, fold them with the strawberries and juice into the cream in just a few strokes so pink streaks remain, divide among 6 glasses and serve at once while the meringue is crisp.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 1,940.8 kcal
- Protein
- 21.9 g
- Fat
- 145.9 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 150.1 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 10 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 92.2 g
- Sodium
- 226.3 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.57 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 323.5 kcal
- Protein
- 3.6 g
- Fat
- 24.3 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 25 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1.7 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 15.4 g
- Sodium
- 37.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.09 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 189.3 kcal
- Protein
- 2.1 g
- Fat
- 14.2 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 14.6 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 0.98 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 9 g
- Sodium
- 22.1 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.06 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Egg, Milk
May contain: Tree nuts
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal
- USDA FoodData Central FNDDS (2021-2023) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central FNDDS. · CC0 1.0 Universal