Meringue

Its got to be one of the sweetist, cheapest pudding bases....For that Eton Mess, or for Pavlova, or with icecream, or.....

2 egg whites
100grams golden caster sugar
quarter teaspoon of baking powder

Preheat the oven to gas mark 2/150 degrees C
Line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
Whisk the egg whites until they reach soft peaks.
Beat into the egg whites the sugar a tbs at a time, whisking for 30sec between each spoonful.
Add the baking powder, whisk until consistency of shaving foam.
Spoon, pipe or use a spatula to spread the meringue mix onto the baking sheet.
Bob the meringue mix into the oven and immediately turn the oven down to gas mark 1 or 140 degrees C.
Bake for 2 hours, don’t be tempted to open the oven after the 2 hours, but instead turn the oven off and leave the meringue inside it, until the oven and it are completely cool. (easiest just to leave it overnight)
You should end up with a delicious, sweet meringue, crispy on the outside and gooey in the middle.

raspberry Eaton Mess

I made those fantastic raspberries that I gathered on the local walk into a delicious Eaton Mess. It’s traditionally made with strawberries, but if you love raspberries like me, you’ll love this version. Oh and its economical to! Home made meringue simple and very cheap to make, there's a recipe for them in the next posting.. and those raspberries didn’t cost me a shilling…

1. make your meringue the night before
2. Whip up some cream, to a light peak
3. lightly fold the fruit and the meringue into the cream
4. serve

a lovely addition is raspberry puree poured over or around the finished mess:
about 450g of raspberries to 50g of icing sugar. Throw the raspberries and icing sugar in a blender, blitz. Then push through a sieve.