Trifle is awesome. Like a fruitcake, a proper one will be alcoholic enough to nearly incapacitate you.

Yeah, my grandmother made a mean English Trifle with plenty of brandy, rum, whatever type struck her as appropriate. Last time I tried to make one, I used a large mixing bowl...wasn't big enough. You need a huge punch bowl to make it properly.

It doesn't look much like a trifle....Looks more like a fruit salad to me!

What she said.

Preferably laced with a strong dose of the strong stuff

and yet, recipe calls for a whole farking tablespoon of cognac???

wow man... let's not get, y'know, all out of control here...

you know how Americans can't handle their booze

/pfft

I watched the notorious Fanny Cradock make a Christmas trifle on one of her episodes.

It looked like raw cinnamon rolls drowned in booze and orange juice and then covered with a layer of molten chocolate as if it were a reactor core in Chernobyl being frantically buried under tons of wet concrete.

Disgusting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU4lu7blRAk

FTFA:

"Trifle is a bowl of whipped cream. A very large bowl of whipped cream. A very large bowl of whipped cream, layered with cake and drizzled with syrup, swirled with custard and studded with little candied fruit bombs. Preferably laced with a strong dose of the strong stuff. All brilliantly displayed, because the trifle bowl - never to be trifled with - is mounted on a pedestal and made of glass. Like an aquarium."

...

This article is EXACTLY the motivation I need to start my professional writing career! That paragraph was EMBARRASSING.

/ I have to go shower.

Make More Hinjews: That paragraph was EMBARRASSING.

It was a dark and stormy bowl of whipped cream. It was the best of whipped cream, it was the worst of whipped cream.

Eewww

LordOfThePings: Make More Hinjews: That paragraph was EMBARRASSING.

It was a dark and stormy bowl of whipped cream. It was the best of whipped cream, it was the worst of whipped cream.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good trifle, must be in want of some custard.

My father's family name being Eiffel, and my Christian name Trevor, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Trifle. So I called myself Trifle, and came to be called Trifle.


Spiralmonkey: a single man in possession of a good trifle, must be in want of some custard.

A good trifle will always have exactly the right amount of custard in it already.

/dessert pedant

Pert: My father's family name being Eiffel, and my Christian name Trevor, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Trifle. So I called myself Trifle, and came to be called Trifle.


Spiralmonkey: a single man in possession of a good trifle, must be in want of some custard.

A good trifle will always have exactly the right amount of custard in it already.

/dessert pedant

I actually DID laugh out loud.

/You can never have too much custard.

Always include a layer of beef sauteed with peas and onions in your trifle.

Spiralmonkey: LordOfThePings: Make More Hinjews: That paragraph was EMBARRASSING.

It was a dark and stormy bowl of whipped cream. It was the best of whipped cream, it was the worst of whipped cream.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good trifle, must be in want of some custard.

Ask not what your trifle can do for you, but what you can do for your trifle!

/ I got nothing.

lasercannon: Always include a layer of beef sauteed with peas and onions in your trifle.

What's not to like?

Wizard Drongo: Spiralmonkey: LordOfThePings: Make More Hinjews: That paragraph was EMBARRASSING.

It was a dark and stormy bowl of whipped cream. It was the best of whipped cream, it was the worst of whipped cream.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good trifle, must be in want of some custard.

Ask not what your trifle can do for you, but what you can do for your trifle!

/ I got nothing.

If this be error and upon't I seem flustered,
Then I never complained, nor no trifle cook custer'ed.

Quis custodiet custard?

/jelly's just not the same

I can't remember who said it, but I remember this quote:

"God only put peat in Celtic nations because they're the only ones drunk enough to burn mud. And the English invented trifle because they're the only ones haughty enough to eat booze."

Pert: lasercannon: Always include a layer of beef sauteed with peas and onions in your trifle.

What's not to like?

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"It tastes like feet!"

"1 tablespoon Cognac"!? Clearly a typo. That should read 100 tablespoons.

david_gaithersburg: "1 tablespoon Cognac"!? Clearly a typo. That should read 100 tablespoons.

Your invite to our family New Year's party is in the mail.

/ Bring anything but rumballs. We have rumballs, oh yes.

ginger cake?? WTF is that shiate doing in my trifle, it should be fluffy white vanilla sponge cake!

ktybear: it should be fluffy white vanilla sponge cake!

Sponge fingers soaked in cream sherry and/or brandy.

Thank you all who posted the hilarious Friends reference. I was killing myself laughing just remembering it.

lasercannon: Always include a layer of beef sauteed with peas and onions in your trifle.

Thread over.

God Is My Co-Pirate: Trifle is awesome. Like a fruitcake, a proper one will be alcoholic enough to nearly incapacitate you.

gopher321: Yeah, my grandmother made a mean English Trifle with plenty of brandy, rum, whatever type struck her as appropriate. Last time I tried to make one, I used a large mixing bowl...wasn't big enough. You need a huge punch bowl to make it properly.

ktybear: ginger cake?? WTF is that shiate doing in my trifle, it should be fluffy white vanilla sponge cake!

Pert: Sponge fingers soaked in cream sherry and/or brandy.


I agree wholeheartedly with you guys.

My Dear old Ma made the most awesome English trifle every Christmas using sponge cake soaked for several hours in plenty of brandy and cream sherry with real homemade custard and strawberries or blueberries topped with lashings of fresh sweetened vanilla whipped cream (fresh for heavens sake never the canned stuff).

mmmmm...Food for the Gods.

Kelbel: I just made my first trifle tonight. Eggnog - Gingerbread and it looks and smells delicious. I hope the friends at work like this.

mmmm....Eggnog sounds nice.

I'm sure your friends will like it, trifle is kinda' like Pizza in that if it's well made there's no such thing as a bad one.

:-)