Friday 8th November - just a trifle...

 ... a trifling sort of post, of snips and snaps poached from a newspaper and a blog

This article from the Guardian newspaper appeared in my newsfeed today. I get the gardening columns. Here's the opening section;

I'd never heard of 'Persephone Days' before. I thought it's a rather charming name for this time of year.

This is the last paragraph ;

Yes, amen, and I thoroughly agree.

So this recipe from the Lavender and Lovage blog for a pear and ginger trifle chimes in nicely with this theme. Just don't tell Prue Leith or Paul Hollywood! 

This is the ingredient list. The method is more or less what you'd expect.

First drain and slice the pears. Heat them gently in the mulled wine and let them cool; leave for a few hours or even overnight. 

When you are ready to assemble the trifle, slice the cake into a beautiful cut glass serving bowl, should you possess such a vessel, or else something similar. Spoon a few tablespoons of the mulled wine over the caje to moisten it, then drain the the pears and arrange on top. Cover with custard, then blob the clotted cream on topon top.

Decorate with chopped crystallised ginger, crumbled flake and edible gold glitter...

This the picture from the blog post

I recommend the recipes on the site. They are an eclectic mixture, including many 'old-school' favourites and I have cooked a numberof them over the years.. They aren't usually 'cheat' recipes like this, but as she says, when it comes to a busy time of year, why not!

I was thinking that I could quite easily downsize this for 2, and finish the ginger cake, pears, custard and cream in other ways... the flake leftovers would already have been 'tidied away' soon after the trifling trifes were assembled...