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Strawberry Fool

Take a quart of picked strawberries, ripe and finely flavoured; put them into a saucepan with a quarter of a pound of white sugar; cover closely, and stew them gently for ten minutes, stirring the fruit now and again to keep it from burning. Rub it through a fine hair sieve with a wooden spoon, and when the pulp is cold stir into it as much new milk as will make it of the consistency of custard. Serve quite cold. If cream is not to be had, and a rich dish is required, the yolks of two eggs may be stirred over the fire till it is on the point of boiling. Time, ten minutes to boil the fruit. Sufficient for six or seven persons. Probable cost, 1s., made with milk only.