The Very Best Trifle | PBS Food

The Very Best Trifle | PBS Food

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It wouldn’t be Christmas without trifle! This is a good traditional recipe which is always popular with my family. Rather than making a custard, and the…

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Ingredients

  • 14 oz pears in syrup
  • ½ cup Maraschino cherries
  • 8 trifle sponges or plain loaf cake, such as pound cake
  • 6 tbsp strawberry jam
  • 5 tbsp dry sherry
  • About 6 Amaretti biscuits or broken almond biscuits
  • 1¼ cup OR 14 oz canned custard or homemade to this quantity
  • 1¼ cup double cream (double cream is hard to find in the US. To make your own, combine 3/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup melted butter for every cup of heavy cream).
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 6 tbsp water

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