Strawberry-Rhubarb Fool

Name: Strawberry-Rhubarb Fool
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Europe, Great Britain
Ingredients: 1 pound (454 grams), fresh rhubarb, trimmed of ends and cut into 6-inch lengths; 2 pints, fresh strawberries, cleaned and hulled; each berry quartered; 1/3 cup, orange juice; 1 cup, granulated sugar; 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

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

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