Don't trifle with me !
As I had made a large lemon cake for eldest son's birthday, and there was only three of us to eat it, there was a lot left so ( never one to waste food)I used the sponge to create a trifle. This came to me as Fat Freddie was coming to lunch and after Lemon Meringue Pie, Sherry trifle is his favourite. Now he hates those dry, gelatinous individual trifles, he only likes it from the side of a great big bowl of trifle, particularly on it's second day when all the flavours have married. So off I went, spreading cherry jam on the sponge and placing it in the base of a fabulous Crystal bowl. I drained two cans of fruit cocktail ( shock horror....not fresh fruit). I mixed the syrup with a good measure of rum ( sherry ran out) and poured this sweet heady syrup onto the sponges. On top I spread the fruit, a layer of jelly and then a layer of custard. I repeated these steps until the bowl was a myriad of colours and spread a layer of lightly whipped cream over the top. I put this in the ...