Trifle—Traditional Recipe

Name: Trifle—Traditional Recipe
Yield: 6 helpings
Ingredients: 1–2 oz. castor sugar; 1 egg white; ¼ pt. double cream; 1 egg and 1 egg yolk; angelica; glacé cherries; 4 Individual sponge cakes; raspberry or strawberry jam; raspberry or strawberry jam; 6 macaroons; 12 ratafia biscuits; ¼ pt. sherry; grated rind of ½ lemon; 1 oz. almonds (blanched and shredded); ½ pt. custardusing ½ pt. milk,; ½ pt. custardusing ½ pt. milk,; 1 egg and 1 egg yolk

Preparation info

6
helpings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

4 Individual sponge cakes
raspberry or strawberry jam
6 macaroons

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Split the sponge cakes into two and spread the lower halves with jam. Replace tops. Arrange in a glass dish and cover with macaroons and ratafias. Soak with sherry, and sprinkle with lemon rind and almonds. Cover with the custard and leave to cool. Whisk the cream, egg white and sugar together until stiff and pile on top of the trifle. Decorate with glacé cherries and angelica.