Strawberries with Cointreau Cream

Peter Langan used to serve these at Odins in the summer as part of his rather perfunctory pudding menu – the serious business of eating having been completed by then; any puds were there, I felt, as rather a sop to the namby-pamby. Even the (at the time) rather admired ‘Mrs Langan’s chocolate pudding’ was a bit of a cop-out, consisting simply of beaten egg white