Strawberry-Rhubarb Fool

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

How do you tame rhubarb's tartness without losing its true flavor? We cooked 50 pounds of it to find out.

SERVES 8

TIME 35 minutes, plus 20 minutes soaking, 20 minutes cooling, and 1 hour chilling

Strawberry-Rhubarb Fool

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a strawberry-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 textur...

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