Trifle

This recipe makes one of the best trifles I have ever tasted, which is astounding given the very high benchmark in my family—thanks to Bob Davis, a long-standing friend from the Mount Gambier district, who is a trifle-making genius. It is not credited in The Rodney Cookery Book but it comes from the famous Mrs Beeton’s Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book, first published in Britain in 1865.<