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I have just made rhubarb Fool. I shall make gooseberry fool tomorrow. This is a thread to do homage to summer puddings (I may make summer pudding too this week).

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh. By the time we get back out to Wiltshire, all the odd berries (I've forgotten what sort they are supposed to be) will have been eaten by birds. What is Fool? I wonder if any Gr1gs0ns have any recipes for Fool, because in that house, if there is not a Gr1gs0n recipe for it, it does not exist.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

To make Fool: Take 6 sticks of rhubarb and sweat with 4oz (4 tablespoons, 125g, 1 cup, about this much) sugar and a little butter. When soft liquidise or pass through a sieve. poor into a jug a cool in the fridge.

When cool. take half a pint of cream (284ml, 10fl.oz., 10 table spoons, about that much) and half a tablespoon of milk and whip till stiff. Fold in the rhubarb mush and poor into cups. Refrigerate or eat as desired.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Also anyone putting gelatine in their fool is a heathen and should be burnt at the stake.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Any acidic fruit or fruit like thing will do so rhubarb, currants, raspberries, gooseberries all good, plums, peaches, strawberries will not work so well.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not eating anything you've sweated on, Ed! Yuck!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds lovely! (def not with the devil gelatine tho, obv!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(I pity the fool)

Fool is definitely twee and English enough to be in a granny Gr1gs0n book, but not an Auntie Annoying Comedy Earrings What Looks Like Zoe Ball at 50 Gr1gs0n book.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I posted a reply and it didn't go through! Again! Damn.

Don't make fun of my in-laws! Will experience for myself this weekend and report back on the comedy earring situation. Thanks for the mental image which will probably make me giggle at socially inappropriate moments. Sigh.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate is going DEEP INTO THE HEART OF MIDDLE ENGERLAND without a helmet or pick-axe.

It would be deeply WRONG of me to stop picking on this woman for what are essentially nepotistic reasons, as nepotism alone brought her to the public's attention in the first place. She's always struck me as one of those folks who read the Mail with lips moving. The top set of lips, mind.

Do you want to hop by after work and have some fool?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm... could do. I told HSA I would ring and tell him if I was coming home before the show or not, I could ring him and tell him I was going to eat Fool instead. But yes, Fool would be lovely! Thank you.

And in defense of the in-laws, I will say that everything I have had from her "Dealing With Your Vegetablearian" cookbook has been very nice indeed.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Gr1gs0ns cook good.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, nuff props to the granny, who did not commit the crime of being annoying on TV.

Yay, pitying the fool at 5.40 or thereabouts?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

this stuff sounds good, ergo i am envying the fool.

for some reason i cannot get the cover of tim buckley's "look at the fool" out of my brane.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never really liked fools. My grandmother used to make them and I can still recall finishing my bowl quickly so that the experience would be over. I guess you could say I have never suffered them gladly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tarbush.com.my/menu/images/foul.gif

foul (pronounced "fool")

Mm-mm-good.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fool on the Hill. Clerkenwell Rd used to be called Windmill Hill, so this is all fine and good. See you later this afternoon!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a friend who ends all his emails (no, not just the ones to me) "Fool!".

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if Richard Harris left his Fool on the Hill, since he was fond of leaving his cake out in the rain.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.ica.net/~spike/sword/fool.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ores.ch/images/themen/ned.jpg

― Dada, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, BTW, I never commented on this thread on the results of my fool-eating experiment.

Fool = NUM NUM!!!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

blackcurrant fool is the best combo. others are dud. actually maybe gooseberry. but rhubarb fool is an error. actually rhubarb generally is wrong. i always have to east this weird baked rhubarb shit my mum makes. baked fruit C & D (esp. baked apple)?

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 10 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

your mum makes good puddings, I can't imagine her baked rhubarb being anything but delightful.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 July 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You lie! Rhubarb is lovely! Food of the gods. Rhubarb and custard with crumble... yum yum yum yum yum!!! How do you make Rhubarb crumble with custard? I need to consult a Gr1gs0n because this must happen while on holiday. Lots!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate likes rhubarb, see? Next foolish thing: gooseberries.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 10 July 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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