Back in our kitchen. Yes! Now yesterday we went to the pub and had a really nice dinner.
That's true. Yes but when it came to dessert, I wanted to have something very special and
it wasn't on the menu. I know. Yes so we said we're going to try it today. Yes. And it's
called Eaton Mess and looks like this but before we're going to try the recipe we want
to show you our visit to the pub. This is where we're having dinner tonight: the Cholmondeley
Arms in beautiful Cheshire.
Plain water. What's that? Lemonade. Lemonade. You're having the fresh fresh grilled mackerel
on toast as a starter - yeah - , right? Yeah. I'm not going to have a starter. I'm going
for the 'Chicken Supreme'. Yeah. And you will have the burger? Yeah, the burger. Okay.
That's Jörg's mackerel on toast which looks quite yummy. Enjoy! So that's roast chicken
and it looks absolutely scrumptious. That's Yorkshire pudding so that contains wheat flour
but Jörg, Jörg is going to sacrifice himself and is going to eat it. That's Jörg's burger.
Looks really good. Yeah.
Okay guys, we just had a look at the puddings. And by the way, we absolutely love that it's
called puddings here and not desserts. It's a, it's quite charming I think. And Jörg
fancies something that's not on the menu. No. I would like to have Eaton Mess. Eaton
Mess? Yeah.
It's not on the menu. No. And by the way, one of my favourite English words is 'roly
poly'. Right next to the Cholmondeley Arms is this gorgeous house and it belongs to the
pub. There are rooms inside that you can book. It used to be the Headmaster's house. No Eaton
Mess. It wasn't on the menu. Why? I don't know. It's so summery. It's perfect. Yeah.
And they had um, what was what's the other one that's so popular? Sticky toffee pudding.
Pudding. Yeah. Sticky toffee pudding.
We didn't drink alcohol. No. I don't know what's wrong. Yeah, you usually have that.
Yeah, it's quite nice but it's yeah, very heavy. Yeah, it's perfect for autumn and winter
I think. And we should do that as well sometime. Yeah - but now - we have to - we need to -make
Eaton Mess. Yeah, we need to make Eaton Mess.
That's such a lovely cottage. Now what is Eaton Mess? It is believed to originate from
Eaton College of course. And one story is that the strawberry, meringue and cream pudding
was dropped at a cricket match between Eaton and Harrow in the late 19th century. Rather
than waste the food, it was scooped up off the floor and served. Whether that's true
I don't know. It's a fun story anyway. And Eaton Mess I think is the perfect summer dessert.
This is the recipe we're using. Eaton Mess. And it's from BBC Good Food. They actually
have great recipes and yeah, it sounds pretty easy. I will link that for you down below
in the info box. This is what you need. Strawberries of course, then double cream, caster sugar,
egg white and icing sugar. And as you can see there's nothing new in our kitchen so
no update here. No because we decided to do our dining room first - yeah - and then next
year we're going to do the kitchen. Yes. And in case you haven't watched our visit to Devol,
we still want to do Devol because we love the brand so so much so yeah, but it will
it will just take longer. Yeah. And regarding our dining room, there's no update either
because the lead times are so crazy that we don't have anything new to report unfortunately.
We will probably have to wait until November so we will just take the opportunity to make
it like a probably a holiday season video and hopefully can show it to you then. We're
quite excited but it just takes so long. So we're going to make the meringue first. You
could also buy it in a shop but we said well, you know what? Let's do it ourselves and it
shouldn't be that difficult. You only need egg white and sugar for it. So the recipe
actually says two egg whites but the eggs are quite small so we said we're going to
use three.
So don't add the sugar all at once but in in three lots. Okay.
So that was very easy to make actually. And this goes into the oven between 1 hour and
1 hour 15 at 120 degrees Celsius so yeah.
And while we're waiting, I'm going to make a cup of tea only using tea bags so nothing
sophisticated. I think that's from Sainsbury's and it's Darjeeling Fine Tea. It's really
good actually.
So the meringue should be done.
Yeah, they look good although you know what really confuses me? Like in the shop they
are really really white. And ours are a little bit on the brown side. Yes. Although we actually
we had a very low temperature. These are organic ones because there are no chemicals in them.
That's true. I think they might use chemicals to keep them white. Yeah, you never know.
And it's not a lot of work, is it? You just need to wait well, it takes an hour in the
oven but. I think meringue is so popular in the UK. We we don't, we have that in Germany
but not as much, do we? No. There's a wedding going on I think in our village. I'd love
to be a guest. So Jörg actually made this tiny one for himself. Yeah to try.
Look it's white. Well, yeah but is it good? Give it a try. Mmmhh.
Is it good? Mmmhh.
Sorry. No, it's good. What's the next step? Yeah, strawberries. I'll cut them into pieces.
Now after I've chopped the strawberries, I take a third of them - yeah - and I will blend
them. Yeah. So that you get some kind of strawberry juice or mousse. Kind of a sauce. Yes. It
looks really really good in the recipe I mean. We have to wait what it will look like here
in this house. That smells so good. Yes, it already smells like strawberries. You know
what this reminds me of? Like, um 'Spaghettieis' - yes - in Germany. Ahhh.
So now careful.
Okay, this looks like this now. And now I think we need to beat the the double cream,
right? Yeah. Okay.
So now I'm cutting the meringues into small pieces.
Okay that goes into the double cream.
The meringue actually tastes so good.
And then add the strawberries.
Now you just have to mix it. I love that. Me too. I just made a mistake - yeah - yeah,
which you shouldn't do. I put in all the meringue -yeah yeah - but you should leave a few crumbs
- yeah - for decoration purposes. We're calling this video 'we're trying a very popular British
dessert' and since this is our very first time we know it the second time. Add some
of the paste. Not all of it? Not all of the sauce? No because that's my decoration now.
Well, this looks very messy as it should be. So we're putting the Eaton Mess into these
preserving jars that we bought in Germany last year. We think they have a great size
for a British pudding. Yeah, it's a great way to serve a dessert.
We have a little bit left and we're going to put it into this bowl that is very old.
We got it as a wedding gift so it's almost 31 years old. It is. No, our wedding anniversary
is coming up in September. Okay. Almost.
It's probably not perfect but for the first time. Oh! Is it good? Yeah. Well, church bells
are going strong.
So that's our result. I think the strawberry sauce looks a bit strange, doesn't it? Not
really deep red and the rest. We just got a parcel and it's a tablecloth so in case
you watched our Kelmscott Manor visit, William Morris's summer home. We went to the gift
shop and wanted to buy a tablecloth but they didn't have a rectangular one left so we ordered
it online. Let's unpack.
William Morris Strawberry Thief Blue. Great.
We just want to see what it looks like. Obviously this needs to be washed so
just
a glimpse.
That's nice. That's really nice. And what I like because the kitchen is green. That's
the tablecloth.
I think that goes really really nicely with the kitchen, doesn't it? Yeah. And also with
a with a wall colour. I like it.
It's lovely. Such a classic.
We're going to officially try this now. We had it in the fridge for about an hour. Time
for some tea.
I call this Eaton Mess for beginners. Yeah, very much. It's easy to make but we still
need some practice. Oh yeah. But I I need I need to try it because I haven't yet.
Hmm!
Okay, that's yummy. That's yummy.
Mmmh.
Okay, it's amazing and I'm not just saying that. It's really amazing.
It's great, isn't it? Probably the meringue is a little bit how do you say? Squishy? Soggy.
Soggy. Yeah but it's still really really nice. You look quite happy. Yes because sometimes
I like messy desserts. Yeah. So in case you don't know this dessert, you should give it
a try because it's so easy to make. I was honestly quite surprised but on the other
hand it's probably pretty obvious because they're not that many ingredients. So yeah,
give it a try. Let us know what you think. We're going to enjoy the rest of the afternoon
with a cuppa and thank you so much for watching. As always we'll see you again very soon so
until next time. Bye. Bye bye. Bye. Bye bye.