Name: 如何製作枸杞傻瓜--維多利亞式方法 (How to Make a Medlar Fool — The Victorian Way)
Uploaded: 2025-10-23T18:08:26.000Z
Duration: 6 min 4 s

Today you find me putting the finishing touches to dessert.

今天你看到我正在為甜點做最後的裝飾。

These are medlars and I have quite a few left over, so I thought I might make a medlar fool.

這是歐洲榲桴，我還剩下不少，所以我想做個歐洲榲桴果泥甜點。

It's the end of the meal intended to cleanse the palate rather than fill you up.

這是用餐結束時，用來潔淨味蕾而非填飽肚子的。

After all, everyone's already had a course of soup, fish, meat, vegetables and sweet entremets.

畢竟，大家已經吃過湯、魚、肉、蔬菜和甜點小食了。

A good dessert is mostly fresh fruit, nuts, ices, although some people do like biscuits to dunk into wine and perhaps some bonbons and other sweet meats.

好吃的甜點大多是新鮮水果、堅果、冰品，雖然有些人喜歡餅乾沾葡萄酒，還有糖果和其他甜肉。

It's a good way to show off the gardener's skills.

A display of fresh fruit at the very peak of its perfection.

你們可能聽過牠們有個俗稱「狗屁股果」。

I understand they're called that in many different languages and I suppose you can see why.

我知道牠們在很多語言裡都有這個名字，我想你們應該看得出來為什麼。

They certainly taste like a sweet dried apple, something like a biffin, but

牠們嚐起來確實像甜的乾燥蘋果，有點像烘烤過的蘋果乾，但是

they have the extra flavour of apricots and dates.

Like most fruit on the dessert table, these are served as a pyramid.

跟甜點桌上的大多數水果一樣，這些會擺成金字塔狀。

I've got quite a few left over and they won't keep.

Medlars are inedible until they've been softened on the tree by a frost.

歐洲榲桴必須經過霜凍軟化後才能食用。

They're not rotten, they're just soft and brown.

它們不是爛掉，只是變軟變褐色。

You can blet them by laying them out on a slate slab in a cold room.

你可以把歐洲榲桴放在冷房的石板上，讓它們軟化。

I find it easier to extract the pulp by letting them boil for a few minutes.

我發現讓它們煮幾分鐘比較容易取出果肉。

Sylvia's boiled these for about five minutes and now I'm pushing them through a sieve to remove the skin.

Sylvia 把這些煮了大概五分鐘，現在我把它們壓過篩網，去除果皮。

I have about a pint of pulp, so I'm going to need about half a pint of cream, which I'm going to whisk and add sugar as I go.

我大約有一品脫的果肉，所以需要大約半品脫的鮮奶油，我會一邊打發一邊加糖。

Must be one of the easiest English recipes.

這應該是最簡單的英式食譜之一了。

They're merely cream, fruit pulp and sugar.

它們不過就是鮮奶油、水果果泥和糖。

Strawberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, apples, raspberries.

草莓、醋栗、大黃、蘋果、覆盆子。

It's a very old recipe, goes back to the Tudor times.

這是一個很老的食譜了，可以追溯到都鐸王朝時期。

I think it's very like whim, whams and trifles.

我覺得它跟 whim、whams 和 trifles 很像。

when I was first taught, I used custard and I was told it was done like that for about 100 years when I lived in Norfolk, I used to make a Norfolk fool, but

我剛學的時候，是用卡士達醬，聽說我在諾福克住的那時候，這樣做已經有大概一百年了，我以前會做諾福克果泥甜點，但

that was more like bread and butter pudding and Boodle's fool has cake in it.

那比較像麵包奶油布丁，Boodle's 的果泥甜點裡面有蛋糕。

This is the most usual way to make it nowadays.

I'm now going to mix my sweetened cream with my medlar puree and then I'm going to carefully put it in the display bowl.

我現在要將我打發的鮮奶油和歐洲榲桴果泥混合，然後小心地把它放到展示碗裡。

That needs to be kept in the cool larder or on a hot day in the ice cave as it must be served cold.

這需要放在涼爽的儲藏室，或者在炎熱的天氣裡放在冰窖，因為它必須冷著吃。

But as I'm serving medlis for dessert, I'm going to put this on the luncheon menu.

但因為我把歐洲榲桴當作甜點，我會把它放在午餐菜單上。