Review: Wordy, with unhelpful descriptions
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2012
I guess you have to do SOMETHING to make one recipe fill up a whole book. I had just assumed there would be more than one recipe but it is pages of blather including unhelpful instructions such as: "Keep beating the whipping cream until it reaches the consistency of - well - whipped cream!" Oddly enough, even though there is an overabundance of instruction, the ingredient quantities are extremely vague, ex: 3 or 4 packages of ladyfingers, 1 to 2 cans of fruit cocktail.  What size package?  What size cans? I've made trifle many times before (the "secret" ingredient referenced by another reviewer is probably sherry), but never with fruit cocktail and maraschino cherries.  Yuck.  Trifle is really good when it's made with nice ingredients but I'm not sure canned fruit is the way to go.  As the author says, it's his family's recipe and there is not one "right" way to make trifle.  Look elsewhere.