Traditional trifle?

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Anyone got a recipie?

thanks

anyone am writing xmas shopping list, non alcoholic pls x

I use a Delia recipe www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/desserts/trifle/traditional-trifle.html

I do it without the sherry and add whipped cream to go on top of the custard, sometimes I cheat and use the chilled good quality pots of custard.

A basic trifle but always goes down well and I actually enjoy it and I am not a huge trifle fan.

I do trifle sponges/madeira cake/swiss roll

Top with lots of frozen raspberries (and sometimes sherry though kids don't like) and leave overnight.

Then top with a carton of the most lovely custard you can buy in the deli counter

And then whipped cream

And sometimes flaked almonds on top as Nigella says it's the done thing.

My kids adore trifle.

NO jelly. I repeat NO jelly.

Dh and ds tell menit isn't a real trifle without jelly. They are wrong.

I could do you a recipe for a traditional 1970s trifle

what do you mean no jelly?

From the bottom:
trifle sponges soaked in sherry.
Jelly with tinned fruit salad bobbing about.
Custard
Whipped Cream
Sprinkles.

That is a trifle.

swiss roll + frozen raspberries + jelly + custard + fresh cream + crushed flake

Always have jelly.

If you're posh, you don't use jelly.

I'm common as muck

oh good. I am absolutely not posh!

Yes, Ohyoumerrykitten has the correct TRADITIONAL recipe. Exactly how my favourite aunty made it. With lashings of sherry, of course

When I say NO jelly, I mean NO bloody jelly!! ;). Philistines.

You jelly freaks can make trifle for my dh and ds but I will be having proper posh trifle with flamed almonds on top amd plenty of sherry.

Arse - flaKed almonds. There go my posh credentials.

Oh you should so go for flamed almonds. I picture them like toasted almonds but done with a blowtorch. It's posh food if you go for it with a blowtorch

And OhYouMerryLittleKitten has stolen my recipe.... (except I go for mandarins instead of fruit salad)

Nooo definitely not mandarins!

Who in their right minds blow torches almonds for a trifle???

Don't spoil it with angelica on top (green sticks) - we used to have this plus glacee cherries and it's horrid!

Oh yes, angelica! Can you still buy it?

Oh the worst is those tooth-breaking little silver balls that were supposedly edible...

No jelly . T'is Satan's food.

And I put peanut brittle or almond brittle ,crushed up, on the cream (nuts are a health food, innit)

Fruit salad in jelly
Sponge cake in the custard
Whipped cream
Flake

I long for an adult trifle but my DCs wouldn't eat it. Maybe next year.

I put crushed Amaretti biscuits on top. Does anyone (besides children) a actually like trifle? I view it as more of a decorative exercise...

Homemade lemon maderia spread with homemade raspberry jam layered with gentle softened raspberries and strawberries in liqueur /sherry, homemade creme anglaise repeat as required top with cream and fresh berries and flaked toasted almonds.
No jelly here as we have vegans coming and I am to lazy to look for veggie jelly

I like skanky trifle like my mum always made - sponge cake, tinned strawberries, strawberry jelly, then strawberry blancmange (so it sets firm, runny custard is not right), then lashings of whipped cream. Bloody lovely imo, and is firmly Christmas to me.

Canyou - i don't suppose it's just the jelly a vegan would avoid in a trifle?! Custard and cream not too popular either. Make it how you want it as they won't have it anyway!