Has Anyone Tried a good English Trifle and what's your fave recipe for it?!


Question:

Has Anyone Tried a good English Trifle and what's your fave recipe for it?

Mine is an authentic 18th century English one:

A) Place pieces of real all-butter Madeira cake in the bottom of your best glass bowl
B) Stick some of the cake together with raspberry jam
C) Sprinkle the cake generously with with a good sweet Cream Sherry or a good sweet Madeira fortified wine
D) Use diced fresh fruit or drain one tin of strawberries and one tin of fruit cocktail - and scatter over the cake
E) Either make one pint of real custard, or use a good bought one and pour this over the cake and fruit (Ambrosia is good)
F)Cover with a thick layer (10 fluid ounces) of whipped double cream that has had two spoonfuls of Amarretto added
G) Decorate with halved glace cherries and cut angelica and sprinkle with toasted sliced almonds

You now have a real English Trifle.

NB: Adding gello/jelly over cake is NOT authentic and is a modern craving. Jelly should be made with real fruit juices/fruit and served separately, from a mould, and then decorated with piped cream.


Answers:
You just wanted to show off didn't you. Are we all invited to share some?

Mine's swiss rolls set in strawberry jelly thats had a tin of strawberries added to it. Pour over ambrosia custard. Then whip up some double cream and layer over. Grate some dark choc and sprinkle on top. Dot with glace cherries. Job done. At xmas I soak the rolls in sherry, and add some to the jelly.

There you now have a quick and easy trifle - with jelly.

you are right, there are 2 types of trifle.
Traditional trifle is sponge, jam, custard and cream, and if my mother in law has anything to do with it, enough cream sherry that you could drink the trifle!! this type of trifle is nice if you like sherry.
personally i like the 'fake' trifle, fruit, sponge, fruit jelly, custard and cream.
they are very different from each other but are both trifles.

I like The sound of your recipe, instead of Madeira cake use Swiss roll with jam and cream in it and soak in a flavoured vodka - for the jelly use sugar free jelly and again mix with a dash of vodka or other spirit that you like!

Well if you know a fine concoction, and wish to type it all out, why ask us ?
Anyway you missed out a sploosh of brandy.

I make a nice whisky and raspberry one. Use a good madeira cake raspberries that have been soaked in whisky over night, put on top of cake top with chilled custard fresh whipped cream and rasperries to decorate mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... goes down well at christmas. I also make a chocolate one with mini jaffa cakes manderin oranges, choclate angel delight cream and grated chocolate mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... heaven and lots of calories!!!! it only comes out at christmas!

* Shafts mouth is a watering* yum yum yum...

As well as a traditional-type trifle, I also make what I call 'black-forest trifle' which consists of slices of chocolate swiss roll in the bottom covered with a couple of tablespoons of tia maria then cherries on top of that with raspberry jelly poured over. When the jelly is set cover with chocolate custard, then whipped cream and a decorative topping of your choice.

Why are you asking for trifle recipes if you have an aversion to modernized trifles?
I like Banoffee trifle and it's a completely modern trifle. Doesn't mean it isn't good though!
http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/...




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