Using up some of what is in the Fridge - Home Made Trifle
We have had a couple of Trifles over the Christmas period and as I still have cream and sponge fingers left I thought that I would make yet another one. There is one requirement in this household by OH that if I make a trifle that it has no alcohol in it. I was always taught especially over the Christmas period to add a spot of sherry to the sponge or sponge fingers after they had been spread with Raspberry jam and then covered with a Raspberry jelly. As I have neither Raspberry jam or Raspberry jelly at the moment I have gone to the pantry shelf to see what fruit I had and I came away with a tin of Strawberries and a tin of Pears and a Strawberry jelly. Its amazing what I find on my pantry shelves, dig a little bit and it really does throw up some different bits and bobs all carefully squirrelled away at different times of the year. I layered the sponge in the bottom of the dish, and then added pears and strawberries. I had retained the juice f...