Stripy Fool

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    Ten

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

  • About

This is a very simple version of the fruit fool, made pretty enough for a party by the presentation.

Any fruits can be used, or any combinations of fruits. A good one is greengage, rhubarb, plums and peaches. The following one is for all red fruit, though it is not necessary to use all four.

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 oz cherries
  • 225 g/8

Method

In four separate saucepans cook the fruits with sugar to taste. The cherries may need a tablespoon or so of water added to the pan, but the other, fruits will need no water if the saucepans are put on a very gentle heat and the contents gently stirred with a wooden spoon. When the fruits are soft and pulpy push them through a nylon sieve into four separate bowls.

Whip the cream until it