A simple and easy recipe Raspberry Fool to help use up a glut of raspberries in my garden. The Autumn Raspberries have produced an abundance of fruit this year and are still going.

Simple Raspberry Fool Recipe
This recipe is taken from The Dairy Book of Home Cooking, one of my go to cook books. I have excluded the sugar from the original recipe as my raspberries did not require any additional sweetening.

Recipe – Raspberry Fruit Fool

Equipment

  • saucepan
  • sieve
  • scales  
  • wooden spoon  
  • bowl
  • whisk
  • large spoon

Ingredients

makes 4 small portions

225g raspberries
175 ml (6 fl oz) double cream
1 tbsp milk


Raspberry Fool Recipe

Instructions

  • Rinse the raspberries in water
  • Put the raspberries and 1 1/2 tbsp water into a saucepan put the lid on and bring slowly to the boil, then simmer until the fruit is soft.
  • Remove saucepan from heat.
  • Rub the raspberries through a sieve and leave to cool.
  • Whip the double cream and milk together, you are looking for a lightly stiff consistency.
  • Fold in the cold raspberry puree.
  • Spoon into four small glass containers (unlike my large ones!) and chill in the fridge.
Decorate with fresh raspberries or a little whipped cream.

Easy Raspberry Fool Recipe

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