Peach and basil Eton mess from The Joyful Home Cook (page 218) by Rosie Birkett

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    Can substitute raspberries for white currants.

  • julia_on97ln on April 07, 2026

    Peaches weren’t in season yet, since it’s early spring, but I love Eton mess & was too excited to make the basil cream to wait! So swapped peaches for rhubarb. But to the actual recipe: The meringue is fab, not too sweet and the nuttiness of the hazelnut give dimension. The basil cream is DIVINE. I didn’t have all 70g, so quickly steeped 2 sprigs of thyme with the ~50g basil I had, but removed those springs before cooling in fridge. To sub peaches, I poached rhubarb using the poached apricots recipe in the book (swapping basil for lavender.) Can’t wait to properly try full recipe!

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