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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Easy Raspberry Fool Recipe |
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