Gooseberry Fool
30 min · serves 4
Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🟢 Gooseberry
Ingredients
- 400 g Gooseberries, topped and tailed (grown in the garden)
- 100 g Caster sugar
- 250 ml Double cream
- 100 ml Cold ready-made custard
Green items are crops you can grow yourself.
Method
- Simmer the gooseberries with the sugar and 2 tbsp water for 10 minutes until pulpy. Mash and cool completely.
- Whip the cream until it holds soft peaks and fold in the custard.
- Gently fold through the gooseberry purée to ripple it.
- Spoon into glasses and chill for 1 hour. Taste the fruit first and adjust the sugar, as gooseberries vary a lot in sharpness.