Fruit Trifle

Trifles were introduced to me by my Nana. Every blue moon she makes them, and mostly during a Christmas. I hear she used to cook a lot when she was my age and when my mom was a child. Though, as time progressed, she stopped. There are two reasons I wish she would have continued to cook. 1. Childhood would have been tastier. 2. The stories my mom tells me about her cooking make me want to recreate the dishes, but Nana cannot remember the recipes anymore. This Christmas I asked for her trifle recipe. As she cooks from her head and doesn't really measure anything but goes by feel, this recipe is a little rough. I'll update it after making my own first trifle.

Ingredients:

• a nice bowl
• sponge cake or lady fingers
• 1 red jelly packet
• 1 custard or vanilla pudding packet
• fruit - peaches sliced (she used canned)
• sherry
  
• whip cream
• almonds
• maraschino cherries

To make:

1. Soak lady fingers in sherry.
2. Make jelly packet and pudding packet.
3. Layer lady fingers, jelly, custard and fruit.
4. Drizzle with sherry.
5. Layer again and repeat until the bowl is filled.
6. Top with whip cream, almonds and cherries.
7. Chill in fridge until ready to serve.