Rhubarb Fool - A Delicious Dessert

A fruit fool is a classic English dessert, and the recipe suggestion here is for a Rhubarb Fool - but did you know that the rhubarb plant, with edible, long, fleshy, petioles is classified as a vegetable and not a fruit! Because it is a very versatile vegetable, and used for baking pies, cakes, muffins, breads, cookies, and more, it is often thought of as a fruit - however, rhubarb is a vegetable!

Nutritionally, it is low in calories, and this vegetable is made up of about 95% water, and is quite acidic (pH 3.1). The acid is usually well offset by the addition of sugar or sweetener when it is baked or stewed, or used as an ingredient in any recipe. An alternative to using granulated sugar when sweetening is to sweeten it by combining it with other, sweeter foods, such as strawberries, apples, peaches, or other fruits. Or try sugar substitutes such as "Splenda" alone, for those living the LCHF lifestyle use your own preferred sweetener when making the Rhubarb Fool Dessert in the recipe shown below, this keeps the carb count as low as possible … 

Ingredients:

Serves Four
350g/12oz rhubarb
55g/2oz (sugar) equivalent sweetener of your choice
1 orange, juice only
water
150ml/¼ pint cream, whipped
1 egg white, beaten until peaked 

Method:

1. Place the rhubarb, sweetener, orange juice and enough water to cover the rhubarb in a medium pan. Boil rapidly until rhubarb is soft.

2. In a bowl, fold the egg white into the whipped cream.
3. When the rhubarb is soft, remove it from the liquid with a slotted spoon. Fold the fruit into the egg white and cream mixture. Reserve a little rhubarb for decoration.
4. Spoon the resulting fool into a tall dessert glass. Top with the reserved rhubarb and serve.

From an original recipe idea here 

Please note - a variety of recipe ideas are found within this blog, and not all may be suitable for you. If you may have any food allergies, or underlying health issues these must always be taken into account. If you are a diabetic and not sure how certain foods may affect your blood sugars, test is best, i.e. use your meter. 

All the best Jan