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Trifle is a layered dessert of English origin. The usual ingredients are a thin layer of sponge fingers or sponge cake soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, a fruit element (fresh or jelly), custard and whipped cream layered in that ascending order in a glass dish. [1]
As a variety of the English trifle, tipsy cake is popular in the American South, often served after dinner as a dessert or at Church socials and neighbourhood gatherings. It was a well known dessert by the mid 19th century and was included Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in 1861. [2] The tipsy cake originated in the mid-18th century.
The icebox cake is derived from similar desserts such as the charlotte and the trifle and made to be more accessible to prepare. [3] It was first introduced to the United States in the 1920s, as companies were promoting the icebox as a kitchen appliance. [4]
It has a derivative in the verb inzuppare, which means 'to dunk'; as the sponge cake or ladyfingers are dipped in liqueur, the dish is called zuppa. Similarly, thick bean with vegetable stews and fish or shellfish stews are properly described as zuppa di verdure and zuppa di pesce , respectively.
The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first non-yeasted cakes, and the earliest attested sponge cake recipe in English is found in a book by the British poet Gervase Markham, The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman (1615). [4] The cake was more like a cracker: thin and crisp.
A cake traditionally made with a pound each of its four main ingredients (flour, butter, eggs, and sugar); today, ingredient proportions vary. Princess cake: Sweden: A cake with alternating layers of sponge cake and whipped cream followed a layer of fresh raspberries and a layer of custard; all these layers are topped with a layer of marzipan.
The name trifle was also originally applied to the dish, with the two names being used, for a time, interchangeably. [4] In the late 16th century, a trifle was 'a dish composed of cream boiled with various ingredients'. Davidson suggests that this is 'also the description one could give of a fool'.
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