Richard Wright wrote:

> By this the OED author means that it was only in the 18th century that
> crushed, stewed fruit appears in the description of a fool. Before
> that a fool was described as a sort of clotted cream or custard.

The Compleat Cook, 1658:
Take your Gooseberries, and put them in a pot, and set it in a skillet of
boiling water, and when they are coddled enough strain them. Reheat them
and when they are scalding hot, beat them very well with a good piece of
fresh butter, rose-water and sugar, and put in the yolks of two or three
eggs; you may put rose-water into them, and so mix it altogether, and serve
it cold.

Shouldn't that be interpreted as "crushed, stewed fruit"?

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