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 Swiss rolls tend not to be rolls so much as, well, crumbly piles of sticky cake. Mary Berry looks v decisive when she rolls hers, I think that's where I'm going wrong. Too wimpy.

I didn't know you could even make a trifle without jelly!? Sounds odd

Still I am defo lower class (just well educated!)

Fabulous retro Black Forest trifle:

Chocolate swiss roll in bottom of dish
A few shavings of dark chocolate
Black cherries in Kirsch scattered on - liberal amounts of Kirsch slopped in too
Chocolate blancmange/custard glugged on
Shitloads of whipped cream
More shavings of dark chocolate

Bloody deelish and you can also enjoy Granny getting pished as she bolts down her third bowlful.

Trifle without jelly is just cake and custard

OP - YABU, you horsewhip the lower classes, you dont smack them. Smacking is what Nanny does.

Rather doesnt that just leave you with tinned fruit?

I heard that they started putting jelly in trifle during the war or something as a substitute for fruit when it was scarce.

Ooh no you don't make jelly and chop it up and spread over the sponge. You pour the liquid jelly over the sponge and tinned fruit and let it set. Then layer up the custard and cream.

YANBU! Jelly in trifle? Whatever next, milk in first!?

Am still boaking at the idea of chocolate custard. No no a thousand times no. Far too sickly.

Not lady fingers! What you need is Jaffa cakes.

Arrange Jaffa cakes in the bottom of a trifle bowl. Add orange Jelly and mandarin segments from a tin. Top with chocolate Angle Delight and finish with cream - in fact make it Dream Topping for preference - crumbled flake and mini jaffa cakes.

Chocolate orange trifle - yum.

Oh my god, chocolate trifle is the wrongest thing I have ever heard of. I cannot believe you have the sheer brass neck to complain about jelly (which is, of course, delicious in trifle).

I've made that black forest trifles few times as well as nigella's limoncello and raspberry trifle.

I like to be able to get pissed from a trifle.

When Rachel made trifle in friends she said jam, not jelly.

But she also added beef so maybe not a good example...

I think the more things you can get in a trifle the better. I sometimes make a huge one and use 2 jellies . I also throw in a load of fruit, sherry, chopped up sponge cake, custard (Bird's natch) whipped cream and crushed chocolate flake.

If a trifle doesn't have 2000 calories per serving, then there's something seriously wrong.

My lovely Yorkshire Grannie never put jelly in trifle. She would have had palpitations at the very idea. In her honour, my trifles are also jelly-free.

Delia's trifles are jelly free. And Delia is god (OTBC!).
So - no jellies in my trifles.

1. home-made sponge (or shop-bought bashed about a bit)
2. liquour-soaked fruit (I like raspberries as they seem quite absorbent.
3. home-made vodka, gin or sloe gin jelly.
4. slices of banana
5. syllabub (with plenty of liquour).

Is the rule.

To spell liquer incorrectly is 'common'. HTH

I'd have it either way - common or not.

I think that just makes me greedy

Trifle is revolting, I hate jelly, hate soggy sponge cake, hate tinned fruit and hate sherry.

I actually quite like the sound of a chocolate muffin/baileys/chocolate custard pudding but that is probably because it contains no trifle ingredients and has no resemblance to what most people would call trifle.

I cool my jelly until it is starting to set then add it. The custard has to be cold as well otherwise it melts the jelly, but too cold and it won't set smooth. A good trifle takes timing and artistry!

Why does it have to be common - why can't it be chavy then it would be great as I love jelly in trifle with loadsa sherry and I can be a right chav

No banana! You people are deranged. It has to be red fruits or peaches. Anything else is bizarre.

I used to mind a very fussy eater when my DS was about 4, the same age as she was. She refused to eat anything that had what she called "bits" in it. She did, however, love her puddings - they usually do

One day, I decided to try and take advantage of her pudding love by making a trifle. It was the common one with jelly and fruit in the bottom - sorry, Purists

I dished it up. She took up her spoon and was just about to tuck in when DS piped up "Oh you won't like this, J - it's got bits in it!"
Then, as she violently shoved it away: "Can I have hers if she won't eat it?"

The squabble when she realised he'd tricked her was epic!