TRIFLE I

1000 calorie-a-bite trifle

The title says it all. This recipe is my own invention.

Ingredients

(one trifle)

Fruit

3 pears
8 oz raspberries (tinned or fresh)
1 passion fruit
1 bottle dry sherry

Sponge

cake

1/2 cup butter
10 Tbsp castor sugar
1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
2 eggs (slightly whisked)

Custard

2 eggs
pinch salt
pinch nutmeg
10 oz double cream (or use whipping cream)

Topping

10 oz double cream
roast almonds

Procedure

Peel and slice pears, drain raspberries if tinned, and scoop out passion fruit. Place fruit in large trifle bowl and add an ample quantity of sherry. Leave for twenty-four hours to soak in the refrigerator.
Preheat oven to Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and 2 Tbsp of flour and beat. Fold in rest of flour. Bake in 7-inch square tin for 25-30 mins until brown. Let cool. Slice into fingers and arrange on top of fruit. More sherry may be added at this point.
Pour one large glass of sherry. Mix eggs and add all ingredients to small bowl. Place bowl in pan of simmering water. Stir continuously with wooden spoon, sipping sherry, until custard thickens. This takes about ten minutes. Pour custard on top of sponge. Chill in fridge.
Whip cream until stiff and smooth over top of custard. Arrange almonds decoratively.

Rating

Difficulty: moderate
Time: 1 hour preparation, 1 day waiting, 10 minutes cooking.
Precision: no need to measure.

Contributor

 
Angi Lamb 
Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK 
ukc!minster!angi

Recipe last modified: 4 Jul 86

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