Trifle

[AppleJuice]

Disgusting waste of sponge/battenberg, cream, custard, sherry, jelly and fruit.

Can anyone explain the appeal of having all of these delicious foods (and drink!) in one dish?

It evades me

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Edited by AppleJuice on Thursday 23 August 16:18

[Saleen836]

Love a nice homemade trifle, no Sherry in mine though just jelly (with fruit) custard and dream topping sprinkled with 100's & 1000's

[dapprman]

I believe Mrs Beaton was part to blame, though on the upside, without the Italians trying to prepare 'real food' for English mid-20s (age not time) aristos/gentlemen on their Grand Tour we would never have got Tiramisu.

[ninepoint2]

A well made, home made sherry trifle is a lovely thing, my Gran used to make wonderful ones, like a lot of things, we the public, have been fooled into believing the Supermarket own brand trifle is authentic..it's not, it's ste

[anonymous-user]

Real home made trifle is awesome, but doesnt have jelly in it (well mine doesn't)

the layers are also a bit vague too, but that could be due to the ludicrous amount of sherry I add

[David A]

Leave the cake / sponge out. Bloody disgusting with. Lovely without. Especially my white chocolate version.

Also must have hundreds and thousands sprinkles for childhood memory element.

[LeadFarmer]

I love trifle, and often eat one of those supermarket £2 in one go all to myself. I always mike it with sponge, jelly, custard and cream. Sometime put some slices of banana between the jelly layer and the custard, but don't bother with any other fruit, and definitely no alcohol.

Heres one I once made in a tupperware container because its all I had at the time..

Edited by LeadFarmer on Saturday 25th August 21:07

Edited by LeadFarmer on Saturday 25th August 21:07

[Legend83]

I did Lorraine Pascale's recipe for Christmas dessert and it was fantastic - no jelly, replace sponge fingers with slices of madeira soaked in Amaretti, layered with crumbled amaretto biscuits, cream, white chocolate and raspberries.

Nom.