Italian Summer Pudding

This Italian ‘summer pudding’ has to be my favourite dessert because it combines the essence of summer, embodied in a variety of berries, with the meringue, which gives a nice dry and sweet texture. I serve it regularly in my restaurant, but have to resort occasionally to using cultivated berries, although I can assure you that wild ones taste much better.

Ideally the meringue should be piped into the shape of a cornucopia, a tapering ‘container’ for the berries, but it’s probably e