Trifle

Name: Trifle
Brand: Prospect Books
Price: 59.75 AUD

By: Alan Davidson, Helen Saberi

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Paperback | 16 January 2009

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136 Pages

Edition Type
Revised

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18.7 x 13.8 x 0.8

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This is a reprint and recovering of the first volume in Prospect's series The English Kitchen. The authors trace the development and spread of that quintessentially English dish, the trifle. Relaxing after the labours of the Oxford Companion to Food, the late Alan Davidson and his trusty lieutenant of the last years of its compilation, Helen Saberi, turned their spotlight on trifle. Nothing is more emblematic of English cookery. Trifles have been a perennial of English summer lunches, tennis parties, and schoolboy dreams of plenty. The authors trace their origins to the earliest recipe of 1596 and its gradual transformation from a mere cooked cream to the many-layered custardy extravagance we know today. The stages on its journey, described with the lightest of touch, are illustrated by recipes extracted from classic English cookery books. With their customary brilliance they have universalised the English experience, casting far and wide for examples, returning home with trifles from Laos, America, Australasia, Mexico, Eritrea, South Africa, Afghanistan, Malta, and even Norway, where Veiled Maidens are all the rage at teatime. The resulting recipes, handy tips and historical speculation amount to a ladleful of wit and amusement. Trifle was first published by Prospect in 2001. On its first appearance it garnered many appreciative comments.

Industry Reviews

"Sparkles with anecdote and generous whippings of erudition," wrote Glen Baxter when nominating it as his book of the year in The Observer. "A fascinating book and a great stocking-filler." Mark Taylor, Bristol Evening News. "A knees-up romp through jelly, custard, whipped cream and nuts, as the authors dig greedily through layers of culinary archaeology." Jill Dupleix, The Times. "The result is a gem." Orlando Murrin, Daily Express. "What a brilliant idea. Another triumph for Prospect Books." Derek Cooper.

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