Glass Serving Cutting

A) Place pieces of real all-butter Madeira cake in the bottom of your best glass bowl
B) Stick some of the cake together with raspberry jam
C) Sprinkle the cake generously with with a good sweet Cream Sherry or a good sweet Madeira fortified wine
D) Use diced fresh fruit or drain one tin of strawberries and one tin of fruit cocktail - and scatter over the cake
E) Either make one pint of real custard, or use a good bought one and pour this over the cake and fruit (Ambrosia is good)
F)Cover with a thick layer (10 fluid ounces) of whipped double cream that has had two spoonfuls of Amarretto added
G) Decorate with halved glace cherries and cut angelica and sprinkle with toasted sliced almonds

You now have a real English Trifle.

NB: Adding gello/jelly over cake is NOT authentic and is a modern craving. Jelly should be made with real fruit juices/fruit and served separately, from a mould, and then decorated with piped cream.