Quick Trifle

I don't know many people who dislike trifle. My Mother makes a lovely trifle, but I was looking through the school recipe books again and found this easy recipe. I made it for pudding for today's Sunday dinner.

Quick Trifle

Ingredients

4 sponge bricks or any plain sponge+2 tbsp raspberry jam or a jam swiss roll

1 pack of raspberry jelly

Tin of fruit

Custard - either a tin of Ambrosia or use custard powder

1 small carton of whipping cream or double cream

Hundreds and thousands/glace cherries or both.

2-3 tbsp sherry

Method

1)Make jelly.

2) Slit sponge bricks and put jam on or slice the swiss roll. Put in trifle dish.

3) Drain fruit over sponge and add sherry if desired.

4) Arrange fruit on sponge then pour jelly over. ( Do not pour boiling water into a glass dish - it will crack, let the jelly mixture cool a bit first).

5) Let the ingredients cool, then put into a fridge to set.

6) Make custard and let it cool, or just open a tin of Ambrosia and pour over the set ingredients

7) Whip cream and spread over trifle.

8) Decorate with hundreds and thousands or cherries.

School Recipes - Savoury Layer Potatoes

I loved the cookery lessons at the Allertonshire School, Brompton Road, Northallerton. I attended this school from 1982-1985 and had cookery lessons with Mrs Drury, Mrs Garlic and Mrs Pennock. I still use the recipe books today and thought I would share them with people online. Please try them out and let me know what you think.

Savoury Layer Potatoes

Ingredients

1lb potatoes

1 onion

1oz butter/margarine

salt+pepper

1/4 pt of milk/stock

OR miss out milk and add 4 tomatoes or 4oz of cheese or both. The onion can be missed out.

You will neeed a dish and lid or foil for the oven.

Oven - 190 c for 90 minutes or use your microwave, I use it for 20 minutes at full power (800 watt microwave.)

Method

1) Oven on, grease dish.

2) Peel and slice potatoes and onion.

3) Layer ingredients in dish with slat and pepper (add milk if used).

4) Dot with butter, cover and bake.

This is nice on its own or with sausage, bacon or baked beans or even all three.