to think that putting jelly in trifle is a very common thing to do?

[DameHermione]

Trifle,when made properly does not have jelly.

Cake, some sort of juice, whether sherry or juice or liqure, fruit, custard and cream.

No jelly.

It is such a disappointment to dig in and discover a layer of insipid eobbliness.

AIBU to suggest real trifle has no jelly and to add it smacks of the lower classes?

My Mum decorates the Xmas trifle with bits of jelly. But it has to be green jelly. It's the law apparently

It didn't have half the stuff it has now orginally
so why just pick on jelly

YANBU. Jelly made with trifle is common, and if it's made with tinned fruit cocktail, Sherry. Lashings of it. Hic.

Urgh, jelly in trifle is gross.

but so is referring to things as 'common'

maybe a namechange to DameHyacinth, OP? :)

i actually cut up a shop bought swiss roll and place the circles in a bowl and pour the jelly over it to set.

yum!

but ultimately, does it matter???

if you like it who cares?

AIBU to suggest that real trifle is biscuit, alcohol and custard?

and if you add anything else you're a heathen who knows nothing of the history of food?

[Chucks a layer of insipid eobbliness at OP]

YANBU, I agree with you about the jelly but think you could have been a bit more diplomatic about such a contentious issue.

I think you are an inverted snob. If you were a toff you wouldn't give a toss.

I add Mailu to the jelly in my trifle and my exMIL does a smashing trifle where she uses so much alcohol, you can get drunk just off the fumes....watching her make it is hillarious..

One for the trifle, one for me
One for the trifle TWO for me...and so on and so forth.

surely without jelly then all you have at the bottom is soggy cake?

I love trifle and it should have jelly in it.

You are just snobby.

i love the way people get so defensive and serious .... i think the OP is posting in jest and if not its still funny.

I like jelly in trifle

And hundreds and thousands on top

I don't care if it's got jelly in or not trifle is beyond revolting.

The varying conflicting textures, the hundreds and thousands and occasionally banana stack up to a combination only Lucifer himself could have concocted.

Its not a question of historical significance nor originality but a question of class.

Real trifle does not have jelly. The masses and lower classes may add it if they see fit.

Never in my life have I had trifle without jelly, I do not like the inference that my mother and Nana are/were common.

Now.Trifle with or without jelly is the food of the Gods.

Leave it alone

I thought that you set the fruit into the jelly?

But not hundreds and thousands-they are too crunchy.

No jelly in trifle, yuk.
Bottom layer Madeira cake all broken up, warm up some jam, preferably home made. Pour jam all over cake, leave to cool, poor whiskey or Sherry over it.
Then a layer of quite thick custard, then thick whipped cream on top with chocolate for decoration, YUM.

What's best? Trifle with jelly or trifle without jelly...there's only one way to find out.....

i'm not convinced the american author means jam anyway because he says "jam and jelly"

i grate a flake over the cream layer on top and then devour the rest before anyone sees me.

FIGHT!