Trifle is NOT trifle unless it has jelly, I don't care if its "common" or not.

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Watching Marry Berry, she's made trifle with juice, sherry, custard and cream, no jelly. The cake soaked in jelly is literally the best bit!!!
Normally I like to be a bit fancy in the kitchen for special occasions but this is a hill I'm prepared to die on.
What other things are a must have for you but are considered a bit "common"

I absolutely despise trifle because jelly is a key ingredient - but if it doesn’t have jelly, it’s not a trifle.

Same as “choc chip” Welsh cakes are not Welsh cakes

I think you misunderstood what they were saying - they weren’t talking about Eton Mess, the dessert.

Yes to jelly but it must be orange jelly made with orange juice (preferably by my mum 45 years ago) 😊

Eton mess? Now I can invest in the thread.

No jelly in my trifle

Ugh no! Definitely no jelly!🤢

Trifle a la Rachel....

I do wonder how many pages were stuck together, unless it was the last page of main dishes, and the first of puddings.....

I have never looked at a trifle the same way.

But I am now planning a lemon one, WITH jelly over sponge fingers (!), custard made from scratch, and whipped double cream.

I also use jelly to help my no-bake cheesecakes set. Lemon jelly is getting harder to find though.

Trifle itself can just sod off.

Cream - good
Custard - good
Soggy grainy spongy jammy/jelly wet bit - absolutely fucking disgusting.

I like cake, and I like jammy/jelly/fruity stuff, I do NOT like soggy wet cake. It is an abomination.

As by the way, is any cheesecake where the buttery biscuit base has gone all soggy and gritty and soft. Yeuuuuuuuuuch.

Otherwise... if I like it, I eat it. I don't care if its 'common' or not, do people REALLY not eat things they actually like because it's 'common'?

I prefer trifle without jelly. But I'm a bit funny with jelly - I only like it when it's kind of smashed up, and that doesn't really work with trifle.

If you haven't tried trifle without jelly, give it a go. You might be surprised.

No jelly here.

Same. Not a jelly fan except maybe a bit chopped if I have to.
I've made about six of Nigellla's trifles over the years. None have jelly, all delicious!

I'd never had jelly in trifle until a few years ago. My mum used to make it with fruit at the bottom, homemade sponges with sherry and custard. Haven't had it for years sadly.

A trifle consists of sherry, sponge, raspberry jam, custard, and whipped cream. That is all.

Jelly or sherry in a trifle - depending if it is for kids or adults.

Well according to this the earliest known inclusion of jelly was a 1760 recipe so it's definitely been included for quite some time!

Rachel in “Friends” made hers with minced beef, so I wouldn’t worry about jelly 🤷‍♀️

I don't think my mum makes it with jelly (yes, I'm in my 40s and haven't yet made one).

But I didn't like the taste of alcohol as a child (that changed in my teenage years...) so my mum made a section alcohol free and marked it with very ugly bits of sellotape on her lovely cut glass bowl. Very nice of her.

I do both too, never made trifle without jelly

Of course it should contain jelly

I don't have jelly in trifle if I make it, but I'm happy to eat any version really.
I've always used a Delia Smith recipe from circa 1972 ish. It has proper custard too - delicious.

Jelly in trifle is an abomination. Much nicer without.

Who calls it common? Regularly made with jelly and served for some of my favourite lunches when I was at prep school. Sounds like someone made this up 😂

How about bananas in trifle?
My mum would put them in sometimes but I wasn't a fan.
Ok if you were eating it right away but a few hours later/next day...ugh

I think jelly in trifle only became a thing in the1960s when Bird's starting making those trifle kit boxes.

I was only half watching but I was more stunned that she used ready made custard and then stirred cream into it before then adding more cream on the top.

I always put jelly in my trifle as did my mother.