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four to six
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By Denis Cotter
Published 1999
Fool is such a strange dessert, strangely named. Many people would make their excuses rather than eat a bowl of lightly whipped cream flavoured with one of the sourer fruits. For others, it is heaven and I love to watch their faces as the first spoonful slips down. Certainly it works best with that group of fruits which divide people: rhubarb, gooseberries, blackcurrants; although Mags makes an incredible fool of apricots, the recipe for which, she says, we will have to wait. Of course you