Traditional trifle?

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Anyone got a recipie?

thanks

Ugh. No minging tinned fruit. Madeira cake, sherry (lots!), Birds custard, cream, grated chocolate.

Ps - I bloody love trifle

My mother always made a huge trifle for our family's traditional Twelfth Night party. Mostly eaten for breakfast the next morning

Made with home made swiss roll sponge, covered with lots of raspberries and a little orange juice (with or without brandy), then lots of vanilla custard and finally lots of whipped cream. Lovely

dhs family did the other traditional version, sponge fingers somehow in jelly with canned fruit, and blancmange topping and then cream topping. Absolutely horrible

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the necessity for a layer of mince & peas!

I use Delia's cheat's trifle recipe but with an orange theme - mandarins instead of cherries, triple sec splashed liberally around... Yum.

Is it just me that goes for Birds Trifle then??

I found a lovely sounding recipe in a magazine this year, where you cook frozen reaspberries in raspberry jam until they soften and then pour it over sponge while its still hot so it soaks in.

I'm afraid DH and DD insist on jelly, so it won't be as posh as the magazine one.

What's all this whipped cream? Everyone knows a real trifle has Dream Topping and sprinkles on.

Dolaly, that's a blast from the past!

Oh yes, mince and peas Jojobells

Madeira cake broken up then a good quality strawberry jam poured over ( warm up first) a liberal swish of whisky, make up custard bit thicker than normal then pour over and leave to set.
Double cream whipped up for the top layer with a sprinkling of chocolate on top. Yum.