Fruit fool

Fool is the name of a famous English dessert made of pureed raw or cooked fruits and whipped cream. Mostly sour fruits are used like rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries or plums. It is about the same amount of cream used as fruit.

The name fool is probably derived from the French word fouler ( mash ). However, the oldest known recipe from Norfolk from the 17th century contains no fruit, but consisted of English cream of cream, eggs, sugar and spices. A variant of Devonshire was known as White pot.

In ancient recipes unbeaten cream is used. In the 18th century eggs have been added yet, but they gradually disappeared from the prescription information. In other countries, there are also variants compote with cream, for example, red fruit jelly. A Russian dessert made with cranberries cream called Kissel. A similar French dessert consists of pureed strawberries, cherry brandy and crème chantilly ( sweetened whipped cream).

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• Alan Davidson: The Oxford Companion to Food. 2nd edition, edited by Tom Jaine. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, inter alia, ISBN 0-19-280681-5, p 313: fool.

• Sweet dish
• English Kitchen