Food - English Trifle - recipe - Dixon postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  English Trifle - includes recipe details - from Countess of Huntingdon's Recipe Book
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (L6/PGE 21532)
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Trifle is a dessert dish made from thick (or often solidified) custard, fruit, sponge cake, fruit juice or jelly, and whipped cream. These ingredients are usually arranged in layers.

The earliest known use of the name trifle was for a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater, the recipe for which was published in England, 1596, in a book called ""The good huswife's Jewell"" by Thomas Dawson.^[1] Sixty years later milk was added and the custard was poured over alcohol soaked bread.^[2]

Research indicates it evolved from a similar dessert known as a fool or foole, and originally the two names were used interchangeably.^[3]

While some people consider the inclusion of jelly to be a recent variation, the earliest known recipe to include jelly dates from 1747, and the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861.^[4]

Some trifles contain a small amount of alcohol such as port, or, most commonly, sweet sherry or madeira wine. Non-alcoholic versions may use sweet juices or soft drinks such as ginger ale instead, as the liquid is necessary to moisten the cake layers.

One popular trifle variant has the sponge soaked in jelly (liquid-gelatin dessert) when the trifle is made, which sets when refrigerated. The egg and jelly bind together and produce a pleasant texture if made in the correct proportions.

The Scots have a similar dish to trifle, Tipsy Laird, made with Drambuie or whisky.^[5] In the Southern US, a variant of trifle is known as tipsy cake.

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period=1945 - present

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