Holiday Fare Recipes - April Fools Day: Gooseberry and other fools

Fools...the food, not people...are a cream or custard dish. Various fruits may be used including rhubarb or strawberries. In old cookbooks the recipes are found in the desert, creams [after syllabub], puddings and even in the Lent section. Early names were Westminster Fool, Norfolk Fool and Norfolk Whitepot.

Fools

Gooseberry Fool. Glasse, Hannah.
Gooseberry Fool. Leslie, Eliza. Directions for Cookery. Philadelphia: 1840.
Gooseberry Fool. Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management. 1861
Gooseberry or Apple Fool. Sanderson, J.M. The Complete Cook. Philadelphia: 1864.
Gooseberry Fool. Croly, Jane. Jennie June's American Cookery Book... NY: 1870
Gooseberry Fool. Dallas, E.S. Kettner's Book of the Table, 1877
Gooseberry Fool. Wilcox, Estelle Woods. Buckeye Cookery . Minneapolis: 1877.
Gooseberry Fool. Gillette, F.L. White House Cook Book. Chicago: 1887.
Gooseberry Fool. Aunt Babette's Cook Book. Cincinnati: c1889
Orange Fool. Estes, Rufus. Good things to eat. Chicago: 1911.
Westminster-Fool. Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery: 1747
Gooseberries are a real old English fruit...
Fool. Prospect Books, Glossary
Gooseberry Fool. A 15th Century Recipe. The Foody. Historic Puddings.
Gooseberry Fool. 15th century. from Chapel Hill Cook Book

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