Rhubarb Fool

Name: Rhubarb Fool
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Great Britain
Ingredients: 2 1/4 pounds, fresh rhubarb, trimmed of ends and cut into 6-inch lengths; 1/3 cup, orange juice; 1 cup, granulated sugar plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar; Pinch, table salt; 2 cups, heavy cream (cold)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2001, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVES8

TIME35 minutes, plus 20 minutes soaking, 20 minutes cooling, and 1 hour chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a rhubarb fool recipe that would tame the sourness of rhubarb and overcome its tendency to cook into a drab, gray mess, we soaked the rhubarb in water to reduce the acid, simmered it in orange juice and sugar to retain texture and color...

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