Trifle from the Plaza Hotel
"a special dessert but easy to assemble --"
- Ready In:
- 9hrs
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 (3 ounce) package ladyfingers
- 1⁄4 cup sweet sherry
- 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry gelatin
- 2 cups hot water
- 3 egg yolks
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 2 cups light cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup sweetened whipped cream
- 1⁄2 - 1 cup pistachio nut, finely chopped
directions
- Split ladyfingers and arrange on a cookie sheet. Drizzle the sherry over them and allow to stand.
- Dissolve gelatin in hot water in a bowl and chill until syrupy.
- Arrange half the ladyfingers in the bottom of a 6-cup crystal bowl. Pour gelatin syrup over and chill until the gelatin is firm.
- Beat the egg yolks in a heavy saucepan until light. Add sugar gradually, beating all the while until mixture is light and lemon-colored.
- Stir in cream and vanilla.
- Cook, stirring constantly, over a very low heat or over simmering water, until the mixture coats a metal spoon. Pour sauce immediately into a chilled bowl and cover the surgace with transparent wrap.
- Chill thoroughly.
- Arrange remaining ladyfingers in the bowl on top of the set gelatin and pour the chilled custard over it. Chill until serving time.
- Garnish with a puff of sweetened whipped cream and sprinkle chopped pitaschio nuts around the rim of the trifle.
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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas...
have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people...
recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor...
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