Yorkshire Rhubarb Trifle

Name: Yorkshire Rhubarb Trifle
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 tsp ground ginger; 2 tsp ground nutmeg; 2 tsp ground mixed spice; 2 eggs, beaten; 200 g self-raising flour; 150 g oats; 50 g black treacle; 200 g soft dark brown sugar; 200 g golden syrup; 200 g butter; 3 leaves gelatine; ½ vanilla pod, split; 4 cm of root ginger; 200 ml double cream; 25 g icing sugar; 100 g broken pistachio nuts; 250 ml milk; 50 g plain flour; 65 g caster sugar; 4 egg yolks; 2 measures green ginger wine; 4 pieces of parkin, or ginger cake; 2 measures grenadine (optional); 10 sticks of forced Yorkshire rhubarb; 100 ml water; caster sugar

Forced Yorkshire Rhubarb Trifle with Ginger Wine-soaked Parkin Crumbs

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

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By James Mackenzie

Published 2011

About

People love a good old trifle. I’ve given this a twist by using parkin as the sponge, which is a Yorkshire spiced ginger cake traditionally served on bonfire night, and then added green ginger wine instead of sherry, not forgetting the main event of poached tender pink forced rhubarb.

Ingredients

10 sticks of forced Yorkshire rhubarb
100 ml water
caster sugar

Dessert

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 160°C/gas mark 3.

To make the parkin, heat the golden syrup, butter, treacle and sugar in a large saucepan, then add the flour, oats, eggs, spices and mix. Pour into a greaseproof-lined shallow baking tray and cook at