Getting Messy With Eton Mess!

We had a fab afternoon this afternoon!   This week, our Literacy, Science and DT has been all about the journey of food - where does our food come from?

We made Eton Mess from scratch and talked about where the ingredients had come from.  Can you remember?

If you would like to make it yourself at home, this is how you do it:

Ingredients
3 egg whites (the children know how to separate them from the yolk through their fingers)
150g sugar
Double cream or whipping cream
Fruit (We used raspberries grown in the UK but frozen as we know they don't grow at this time of year)

How to make it:
Pour the cream into a bowl.  Whisk and whisk and whisk until it turns into whipped cream.

For our fruit, we squidged up raspberries and made a sauce by mixing with some icing sugar.

To make the meringue

Put the egg whites and sugar into a bowl.   Make sure the bowl is dry and that no egg yolk gets into the mixture or the meringue won't work. (Luckily all of ours worked!) Give it all a good mix.

We used an electric whisk to get lots of air into our mixture as it takes AGES to turn into meringue.

Eventually, the mixture goes glossy and stiff.  We all tried the meringue test, if it doesn't fall out when we hold the bowl upside down over our head, it's ready! 

Splodge onto a baking tray, then bake the meringues in a low oven (ours was 150 degrees C) for about half an hour or until they look like this:

Spoon some cream and fruity sauce into a bowl,  Crumble over the meringue and mix together.   There you have Eton Mess! Yum yum!