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Eton messnoun
An English dessert of strawberries with cream and pieces of meringue, traditionally served at the prize-giving picnic of Eton College.
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Eton mess
Eton mess is a traditional English dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, pieces of meringue and cream, which is traditionally served at Eton College's annual cricket game against the pupils of Harrow School. The dish has been known by this name since the 19th century. According to Recipes from the Dairy by Robin Weir, who spoke to Eton College's librarian, Eton mess was served in the 1930s in the school's "sock shop", and was originally made with either strawberries or bananas mixed with ice-cream or cream. Meringue was a later addition, and may have been an innovation by Michael Smith, the author of Fine English Cookery. An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are regarded as more traditional. A similar dessert is the Lancing mess, served throughout the year at Lancing College in West Sussex, England. The word mess may refer to the appearance of the dish, or may be used in the sense of "a quantity of food", particularly "a prepared dish of soft food" or "a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together". A popular, though thought to be untrue, myth is that Eton mess was first created when a meringue dessert was accidentally crushed by a yellow labrador while traveling to picnic at Eton College, but what could be salvaged was, and it was served as a crushed meringue with strawberries and cream.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of eton mess in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of eton mess in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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