Strawberry and Raspberry Fool

Mary Eaton, Bungay, Suffolk, 1823

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      5 min

Appears in

By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

This is a luxury recipe; but we want all sorts of different recipes at different times in our lives, and this is distinctively English.

Ingredients

  • Scarlet strawberries 1 pint
  • raspberries 1 pint
  • castor sugar

Method

  1. Bruise the strawberries and raspberries.
  2. Pass them through a hair sieve.
  3. Mix them with the sugar and orange-flower water.
  4. Boil up the cream and stir it till it is cold.
  5. Beat the fruit pulp and the cold cream together.
  6. Stir them till they are well-mixed.
  7. Put the fool into glasses or pile in bowls