Fruit Fools

P and I recently had a small Sunday morning trip out to the local farm shop.  When the car boot season is in full swing we often combine a visit to the car boot with a quick foray around the farm shop opposite but this time of year we have to make a special journey.  I love that farm shop as even though it is ALWAYS absolutely heaving with customers, is grotty as hell, is stacked to the rafters with both fresh and packet produce, and you have to start queueing for the tills about halfway round the shop, it is as cheap as chips and the stuff they sell is first rate.

So, amongst other goodies - both fresh and wholesome, and packet and not-quite-as-health-conscious items - I bought a humungous bag of pears for £1.00.  Now, I do love me a nice pear but despite the fact that I was eating them two at a time - they are quite small - I was barely making a dent on the amount of pears still left in the bag.  So yesterday I had a sort of 'ah ha' moment and decided to stew up half a dozen or so and make a fruit fool.

I made some pear fruit fool back in the autumn when I was using up the 'I'm gonna sit in your fruit bowl until I go rotten but I will not ripen ever' pears that I'd picked in from the tree in the garden.  Despite that fool being a roaring success I'd pretty much forgotten about making it until yesterday. 

I'd no sooner skinned, chopped and put the pears on the stove when I spied a large Kilner jar full of plums that I'd preserved in port last September.  'B*ggeration,' thought I, 'I could've used some of those plums instead.'  So, as the pear fool was again highly appreciated last night, today I've stewed up some of those preserved plums, whizzed them to a pulp with my hand blender, added whipped cream (a newly discovered and much appreciated delight for me) and the rest of the carton of ready-made custard and voila! tonight's dessert is plum fruit fool with a hint of port.  I've just had a small taster - for quality control purposes only you understand - and it's damn delicious too, though I says it myself. 

Hmm, wonder if I could make an apple fruit fool too - there are still an awful lot of last autumn's apples in a box in the kitchen!

Comments

[Jennifer]

Sounds yummy, I love a good fool.