Gooseberry Fool

Ingredients

• 1 quart unripe gooseberries
• 1 lb. loaf sugar
• 1 pint cream

Method

1. 1

   Remove the stalks from the gooseberries, put the fruit in a clean stewpan with the sugar and about half a pint of water, and let the fruit boil gently for half an hour.

2. 2

   Rub through a fine sieve and keep the pulp on ice.

3. 3

   Add more sugar if needed.

4. 4

   Whip the cream and mix with the fruit pulp a few minutes before serving.

5. 5

   Fill little ice glasses or serve in a glass or silver dish; hand some fancy biscuits or sponge fingers at the same time.

6. 6

   If liked, the mixture can be partly frozen.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 463. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gooseberry Fool. — 1 quart unripe gooseberries, \ lb. loaf sugar, 1 pint cream

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