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Post by kathyo on Dec 19, 2009 11:02:05 GMT
hi all i love trifle my mum was the best trifle maker rip i still make it the same way she did it has to be rasberry jelly.large tin mixed fruit bananas and a little drop of sherry.o and i nearly forgot the trifle sponges i wonder why we never make it dureing the year all the best kathyo
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Post by mary carroll on Dec 19, 2009 21:12:10 GMT
Hi Kathyo, I don't know about the raspberry jelly, remember what we said about the fruit farm! Mine has to be strawberry or lemon and lime. Cheers Mary C
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Post by maryfarrell6 on Dec 20, 2009 0:49:07 GMT
Hi Mary, Kathyo and all, Reading through several posts about that army trifle at the Christmas parties it has certainly made a lasting impression of all of us! because we're keeping the tradition learned through our childhood years by helping our mothers make it. Kathyo I've got to agree with Mary about the raspberry jelly [after the stories of the fruit farm]I've always used strawberry jelly and I always buy 2 lots of jelly and double up on the sponge fingers as well.So the 1st jelly gets pulled apart cube by cube and we all have a piece[does anyone remember the ma's trying to figure out why the jelly hadn't set and we all playing innocent a bit like AFC's Captains Curry! and then we make light work of the sponge fingers. Best Regards MaryF
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Post by Kentgal on Dec 20, 2009 1:16:15 GMT
Mines is a variation on the theme nowdays. Make sponge (3,3,3 & 3) ozs of flour, butter, sugar & eggs, bake, cool & Soak in whisky. Make jelly with added syrup from mixed fruit, top with custard using single cream instead of milk, then top with whipped double cream flavoured with another tablesthingy of the old Hennesey. Sprinkle with silver balls, green angelica and red cherries soaked overnight in......GUESS. Um um.....mouth watering ...lovely.
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Post by mary carroll on Dec 20, 2009 3:46:03 GMT
Hi Mary F, Just read your post about the trifle, there I was thinking I was the only one who ate the cubes of jelly. We had dream topping on our trifle and all of us fought on who would get to scrape the mixing bowl, also some Sunday morning when we opened the fridge there would be this finger scraping across the trifle, but it wasn't any of us, if was the invisible trifle thief.
Cheers Mary C
p.s do you know how I can activate the smilies on my posts?
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Post by kathyo on Dec 20, 2009 10:56:55 GMT
hi all i remenber my lovely mum makeing the christmas cake and pudding it was so exciting.it always meant the start of christmas it seemed the pudding was hanging.on top of the range stemeing for most of the day.and looking in wonder as the cake was ised then a picture of santy put on top. how luckey we were to have wonderful parents i cant belive they brought up nine children in that little house;and made us feel so safe and loved all the best katho
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Post by afcmoore on Dec 20, 2009 12:28:04 GMT
Hi Kentgal & the Platooners.&Curraghs Readers. Kentgal i have missed your posts so much and its lovely to see you back on site.Can you send me some of that trifle down to London as i got a longing and need to to stop the little creatures crying out from the depths of my stomach .I might try to make it myself but couldn't find another tablesthingyful of thingy put a space between and it will clarify the item? and get past the sentry.I remember in the early days before the fridges and the trifle sponges they used madeira cake or plain biscuits and some would leave them whole others would crumble them .When i make the trifle usually around Christmas it always brings back memories of the Plunkett Xmas Trifle and followed with the brandy flamed pudding.The smiling head cook in his white uniform and apron and Chefs high hat and taking the spotlight with the flaming pud. My Grandchildren are not allowed to eat Grandads trifle as its too laced with spirits but its got a great whiff to it and its that strong it may travel all the way to Manchester on the airwaves.I do make the kids their own but they do try to get the sthingys in the good stuff. So Christmas Cheer to every an more Power to your elbow or what ever the tipple. Im now polishing the glasses as it tastes better when they sparkle . Cheers Anthony.
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Post by afcmoore on Dec 20, 2009 12:39:24 GMT
Hi all. Testing sthingyfuls spo onfuls lets see. A.
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Post by afcmoore on Dec 20, 2009 12:46:30 GMT
Hi All. Dint see nothing wrong with spo onfuls but got passed the sentry so if you want to send your menus thats the way to do it. A .
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Post by Kentgal on Dec 20, 2009 14:08:46 GMT
The sthingythingys! Honest to God twasn't me. twas the computer what done it! Anyway dont forget the Hot Toddy on The night before Christmas. A clove or two, teasthingy brown sugar, a dash of lemon juice to the tablesp thingy of Hard Stuff and boiling water. Cheers
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Post by Eileen on Dec 20, 2009 15:40:52 GMT
Hi Kathyo
We were so lucky to have such wornderful parents and all I remember from childhood is the love that was all areound us. Having nine children can't have been easy but Mum and Dad (RIP) were always there for us and we had such fun.
Eileen
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Post by may on Dec 20, 2009 20:36:34 GMT
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Post by rose5mcdonaghtce on Dec 20, 2009 20:41:49 GMT
Hi All,
When the McDonagh Christmas Dinner was on we were allowed wait up until the Da brought over the trifles in the little disposable dishes, was never a lover of trifle, but used to eat every bit of it. Fresh whipped cream takes up all the flavours around it fairly quickly, maybe it was the taste of cigarette smoke. When Mam would be making the Christmas cakes it used to drive me mad, "dont bang that door my cake will fall" not a lover of Xmas cake either, but used to love licking the greaseproof paper, and the smell when she would pour the whiskey over it to keep it moist.
Remember the big long red candles that were sold in the garrison they were light in the windows on Christmas eve, and used for the table on Christmas Day, our candle holder was a 2lb jam jar, as was Barbara Mullins, Mag Cummins, the jar would be stuffed with red crepe paper to keep the candle upright, talk about health and safety, candles burning beside net curtains, and depending on highly flammable crepe paper to support it, why did'nt they just buy a candle holder, know times were hard, but Hector Grey's was around even then.
I think we all aspire to have the Christmas atmosphere we remember from our childhoods, the tastes and smells, the family rituals etc., but alas its never quite the same, specially when one or both of the people who made your Christmas happen is gone, please god our children will be doing the same in years to come remembering happy Christmas's and carrying on the traditions that we might not see as traditional within our family now, but will be to them.
Rose.
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Post by maryfarrell6 on Dec 20, 2009 23:20:32 GMT
Hi Kentgal, Rose and all, Kentgal your recipe for that trifle had my mouth watering it certainly packed a major 'PUNCH' maybe a dash of Baileys to the custard would finish it off with finese!!! Best Regards MaryF
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