Best 3 Boodles Orange Fool Recipes

BOODLES ORANGE FOOL

Steps:

• Use the sponge slices to line the bottom and halfway up the sides of a deep serving dish or bowl.
• Mix the orange and lemon rinds and juice with the sugar and stir until the sugar has completely dissolved.
• in another bowl, whip the cream until it just starts to thicken, then slowly add the sweetened fruit juice, whipping the cream as you do so. Whip until the cream is light and thickened and all the juice absorbed.
• Pour the mixture over the sponge and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, longer if possible, so that the juice can soak into the sponge and the cream thicken. Serve decorated with segments or slices of fresh orange.

BLOOD ORANGE FOOL

Steps:

• In a small saucepan combine blood orange juice and peel, sugar and water. Bring to a boil and reduce to approximately 1 cup. Allow to cool, cover and refrigerate syrup overnight. Strain out peel and pulp of orange. Whip cream to stiff peaks with 1/4 cup syrup. Spoon into blood orange halves. Sprinkle tops with almonds.

ORANGE FOOLS

Steps:

• With a vegetable peeler remove 2 strips zest from orange (each about 3 by 1/2 inch) and mince.
• Squeeze enough juice from orange to measure 1/2 cup and in a small heavy saucepan simmer orange juice until reduced to 1/4 cup.
• Remove pan from heat and add sugar and butter to orange juice, whisking until butter is melted. Whisk in egg until combined well and cook mixture over moderately low heat, whisking, until thick enough to hold marks of whisk and first bubble appears on surface, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Remove pan from heat and add zest to orange curd, whisking. Pour orange curd into a bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and stir until cold.
• In another bowl beat cream until it just holds stiff peaks and fold into orange curd gently but thoroughly.
• Spoon orange fool into 2 chilled goblets.