Eton Mess

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth

By Jill O'Connor

Published 2007

  • About

This simple fruit-and-cream “pudding” was created at Eton College, the prestigious boys’ school founded by King Henry VIII near Windsor, England, famous for educating prime ministers, artists, writers, and royalty—even occasional fictional characters, from Bridget Jones’s Mark Darcy to James Bond. Perhaps more interesting is the list of “Non-Etonians,” posted by the college’s Web site, including those who some may think att