Strawberry and Raspberry Fool
600ml (1 pint) Strawberries or Raspberries
600ml (1 pint) Cream
170g (6oz) Caster Sugar
Orange Water
Squeeze and strain the juice from the fruit.
Mix the fruit juice, orange water and caster sugar together and bring to the boil.
Boil the cream.
Remove both from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
Mix the fruit syrup with the boiled cream over the heat, but do not allow to boil.
Keep stirring until cold.
Transfer to a bowl and chill until needed.
To make Strawberry and Rasberry Fool
Take a pint of rasberries, squeeze and strain the juice, with a spoonful of orange water, put to the juice six ounces of fine sugar, and boil it over the fire; then take a pint of cream and boil it, mix them all well together, and heat them over the fire, but not to boil, if it do it will curdle; stir it till it be cold, put it into your bason and keep it for use.
You may lay them round your Mutton, or they are proper for a side-dish.
English Housewifry - 1764
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