Gooseberry Fool

Ingredients

• Take green gooseberries
• one pint of milk
• one-half pint of cream
• sugar to taste
• two tablespoonfuls of water

Method

1. 1

   Cut the tops and tails of the gooseberries; put them in a jar with water and a little moist sugar.

2. 2

   Set this jar in boiling water and let it boil until the fruit is soft enough to mash.

3. 3

   Beat it to a pulp, work through a colander, and stir in milk or equal quantities of cream and milk.

4. 4

   Sweeten to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 408. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOOSEBERRY FOOL, Take green gooseberries ; to every pint of pulp add one pint of milk, or one-half pint of cream and one-half pint of milk ; sugar to taste. Cut the tops and tails of the gooseberries ; put them in a jar with two tablespoonfuls of water

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