Gooseberry Fool
It's
a bit heartbreaking when you wake up in the morning and see an email
from your mother with the subject line "Gooseberry Fool." Turns
out she was just passing on a recipe that my grandmother got from one
of her older relatives. We don't have gooseberries yet, but I thought I'd
record the recipe for posterity. That way, we can give it a shot
once we're swimming in gooseberry fruits.
1qt. green gooseberries. Put in sauce pan
with cold water to cover and
bring
to boiling, but remove from heat before fruit cracks and juice
escapes.
Strain off water, let cool and press thru
colander with a wooden spoon,
adding sugar and a little milk at same time.
Sweeten again to proper
taste and add more milk if necessary to bring to proper consistency.
"Perhaps with raspberries you will
need a little lemon juice to make milk
thicken, and not so much water, but more berries."
---
Frances Tirrell Eckberg
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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