Trifle - The English Kitchen Author:Alan Davidson, Helen Saberi Trifles have been a perennial of English summer lunches, tennis parties, and schoolboy dreams. The authors trace their origins to the earliest recipe for trifle of 1596 and its gradual transformation from a mere cooked cream to the many layered custardy extravagance that we know today. The stages on its journey, described with the lightest of to... more »uch, are illustrated by recipes extracted from classic English cookery books. The authors thereafter range far and wide in search of the perfect trifle, from Zuppa Inglese to American aphrodisiac trifle to a fruit and tapioca trifle from Laos. As may be imagined from these authors, the material presented is scholarly, yet trips the light fantastic in a way that should appeal the all those curious about the development of our national cuisine.« less