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Gooseberry Fool

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Whipped cream
  2. Cream
  3. Rub
  4. Icing sugar
  5. one pound of green gooseberries
Contains EggsMilk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Blending hot liquid. Let it cool a little first, fill the blender no more than a third, and hold the lid down with a folded towel. Start on the lowest speed. A stick blender in the pan is safer.

Method

  1. Poach one pound of green gooseberries in some thin syrup.
  2. When they are cooked, thoroughly drain them;
  3. rub them through a sieve, and collect the purée in a flat saucepan.
  4. Work this purée on ice, and add the necessary amount of icing sugar to it.
  5. The amount of the icing sugar varies according to the acidity of the fruit and the sweetness of the poaching-syrup.
  6. Combine with the purée an equal quantity of very stiffly whipped cream;
  7. set the preparation in the shape of a dome in a timbale: decorate its surface, by means of a piping-bag, with Chantilly cream, and serve very cold.
  8. Tangerines (Mandarines).

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Blender
  • Sieve
  • Colander