Fool's paradise - name your fruit and indulge yourself
Published: 14:41, 20 May 2020
Quick to make and even quicker to eat
Fruit fool (serves 6)
Ingredients:
450g strawberries/raspberries* or rhubarb, trimmed and cut into medium pieces
150g granulated sugar
284ml double cream
*whichever berries take your fancy
Method:
- If using rhubarb you need to cook it in a pan with 4 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp of water over a low heat for 10 minutes or until tender.Add sugar to taste - as a guide about 80g should do it.Leave to cool
- The berries just need to be chopped up and mashed (keep some back for decoration)
- Whisk the cream into soft peaks
- Strain the juice from the rhubarb and fold it in to the cream (if it seems too thin, whisk it up a bit more)
- Add the rhubarb and mix them together
- If using berries just add them to the cream and mix it all together
- Spoon into glasses or ramekins and serve with a biscuit - ginger snap or amaretto go well (something with some bite) or angel fingers
- garnish with a bit of fruit and a mint leaf