Fruit Fool Recipes

You can use either fresh, bottled or tinned fruit for making this recipe. Although gooseberry fool is perhaps the best-known type, excellent sweets be made by using rhubarb, damsons, blackberries and other fruits. Make them as described in the recipes and then serve them in individual glasses and them have them decorated with chopped almonds or walnuts.

Gooseberry Fool

2 lb of gooseberries
1/4 of a pint of water
Sugar to sweeten
1/4 pint of custard
1/4 pint of cream
Green colouring
Nuts, etc., to decorate

1) Stew the fruit with water and sugar to taste. Pass is through a sieve.

2) When puree is cold, add custard, whipped cream and coloring, and beat mixture well.

Blackberry Fool

1 lb of blackberries
3 oz of sugar
1/2 pint of thick custard
1/4 pint of cream

1) Stew the fruit gently with the sugar and then sieve it.

2) Beat in the custard and fold in stiffly whipped cream.

3) Pour the mixture into glasses or into a dish and decorate with nuts and whole berries.