Yorkshire Rhubarb Trifle

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