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?

stubborn I think ginger cake (of the Jamaican variety) would overwhelm the rhubarb. Some stem ginger (in with the madeira cake), or a little Stones Ginger wine would be good though.

We have three quarters half of the trifle (sponge fingers, jelly, custard, cream and raspberries) DD made left and it is shouting at me from the 'fridge.

I like my trifle to have a layer of lady fingers, then jam, then custard, raspberries, more lady fingers, beef sauteed with peas and onions, custard and bananas and finally some whipped cream.

MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

Alright joey??

....even though it tastes like feet

In Malaysia I once got a drink with jelly pieces in. It came with an extra big straw and I almost spat it all out when I felt the little pieces in my mouth. Turns out it was amazing!

Nothing to do with trifle though. Trifle is a rubbish dessert.

Mmmm....

Right.

Madeira cake. Ginger wine. (although that means I'm going to have to buy a bottle and drink the rest of it, doesn't it?)
Orange jelly.

Rhubarb, custard, cream etc...

Ecclescakes I don't see any alternative to you having to get your anorak on...

By the way, are they not called boudoir fingers rather than lady fingers?

(possibly the best named food product outside Lidl)

Okra = lady fingers? = best kept well away from trifle (or anything but that's a different thread!)

They are just called 'sponge fingers' aren't they?

In ASDA they are definitely called boudoir fingers, at any rate.

(C'mon, someone back me up on this! Don't make me look like a crazy lady!)

Just eaten trifle with jelly & it was lovely!

Are you sure you is in Asda and not Waitrose? Boudoir fingers sounds posh

the scale is

trifle sponges
sponge fingers
boudoir biscuits
savoiiardi biscuits

and NoMoreCakeOClocke that would be Bubble Tea, you can buy the massive tapioca pearls in most chinese supermarkets :D

Don't make me have to go to ASDA, buy a pack of boudoir fingers, take a photo and then upload it onto my profile! (sobs)

Wikipedia cannot be wrong

yabu and a snob

putting jelly in a grown up dessert is common and naff

I was always told that Scottish trifle doesn't have jelly, but that English does. But maybe my Scottish family are just posher than my English family

Don't care. I is a viscountess. I can stick jelly in me trifle if I wants to. Ner.

Waitrose put jelly in their trifles, which I reckon settles the "common" argument

If jelly is not in the purist trifle, then what should we call that delectable jelly, fruit, custard and cream filled pudding topped with hundreds and thousands?!

This thread is hilarious.

Trifle is the food of the Gods and Dame, YADNBU - jelly has no place in trifle.

I am loving your delightfully non-U muffin-and-Baileys based abomination, though. That is so getting made.

Bloody hell! Has anyone eaten Trifle since the 1970s?

I thought it had died a death along with Bird's Angel Delight, Black Forest Gatuex and Lemon Meringue, around about the time of the three day week.

Regardless of its constituent parts, trifle is the epitome of 1970s surburbanite naff. I bet Beverely knocked up a trifle in Abigail's Party.

boudoir fingers

That sounds FILTHY!

Urgh, how very dare you even mention the foul stuff? Will now have nightmares.

Trifle is indeed vile stuff, but I did used to like nicking those orange and lemon jellies that were bunged on top.