RASPBERRY TRIFLE
Although wild raspberries are the essence of all that is delicious, and both red and black ones grow widely across Southern Appalachia, you can substitute domestic ones.
Cover the bottom of a large bowl (or trifle dish) with a layer of crumbled pound cake. Place a layer of raspberries over the cake, followed by a layer of vanilla or tapioca pudding and a layer of whipped cream. Repeat layers until bowl is full, ending with whipped topping dotted by fresh berries.
NOTE: This is a versatile recipe which also works well with other berries. If you particularly enjoy chocolate, substitute chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, and crushed toffee pieces.
JC
—Celebrating Southern Appalachia Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
Over the weekend I picked some wild raspberries and made a delicious trifle.
Most grocery stories that have a bakery sell pound cakes, but I made Aunt Fay’s recipe. You can find it here.
Katie made some vanilla pudding for me to use. There are tons of recipes online for homemade and the box mix works great too.
Trifles are easy to make and taste so good! You can pick up a copy of our cookbook here.
Drop back by tomorrow and I’ll tell you more about my wild raspberry patch.
Last night’s video: Matt’s Delicious Breakfast & Weeding the Corn.
Tipper
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PS Lemon curd trifle is also great with blackberry, raspberry or a mix of either with the blueberry.
I make a lemon curd trifle once in a while. I have friends that love lemon with blueberries. Trifle is a delicious food gift for friends. My trifle is Angle, or pound cake (as desired), lemon curd, blueberries , whipped cream, continue layering. Always end with the fruit on top. You can make the dessert in what ever size dish you’d like. Try not to skimp, that would not be nice, as this is a treat to eat more than one helping. LOL . My dear friends love this dessert. Please pray for my daughter. She had this massive stroke last August. She’s been in the hospital for a little more than a week now and they’re having a hard time finding the cause of what’s going on. We nearly lost her the day she was admitted. We’re hoping she’ll be better sooner than later. Hope everything dad out there had a great Father’s Day. God bless you all. Today, tomorrow and always. Praying for peace.
I don’t know how I missed this post in my email box, but just read it. That truffle looks delicious!
For all of my life until I saw you Tipper make a Trifle on you channel I thought the name of the dessert was Tri fold. Most people I knew put cake whipped cream and fruit and my southern ears heard trifold. You know folding three things together.. LoL..I’m happy we can add more things and now we call it Trifle. Yours does make me hungry.
My comment was supposed to be a reply to Brenda Leach. Thank you
There was a lot of flash flooding more north of where I live in WV. We have been getting rain and the warnings of possible flash floods. I had no idea how bad it was in Ohio and other northern counties until I heard that six people died and three others are still missing. Very sad.
I am wore out, think I will be trifling and take a nap. I just finished watching the video of y’all hoeing out the corn, now I’m tired. Thank goodness I don’t remember hoeing corn, I did hoe other things in the garden. For many years Daddy would plow our corn with a mule and a plow that a variety of plows and sweeps could be used on on. This saved a lot of hoeing , small grass around the stalk would be covered in dirt and die. The old timers like to plant corn in deep furrows and then roll dirt back into furrows each time it was plowed. Just like with planting tomatoes deep, this would allow the corn stalk to make more deeper roots. Later on after the mule died, I had a tractor with a tricycle front end and two row cultivators on it, one set on each side of the front of the tractor. I never used but one side when plowing my corn. Depending on the size of the tractor you could get up to 6 row cultivators, the problem came in with these multiple rows being used was if you happened to bobble you would plow out all of the rows instead of just one. This is just a wild guess, I would bet my money on a terrapin biting off your corn stalks.
I tried raspberries one time when I was a kid, but didn’t like them. At 73, maybe I need to give them another try. As we know our taste changes when we get adults. As I remember I didn’t like the seeds in raspberries as I don’t blackberries seeds either. However, I love the taste of blackberries. Mom made great blackberry cobblers, but she would strain every seed out of them. I hope heaven has a big garden with fruits, berries & vegetables for all to enjoy!
Wow, that Trifle looks delicious! I seldom heard my grandfather speak evil of any man. However, on occasion and if it was honestly warranted, he would describe someone as trifling sorry. To him, that was a serious judgment.
Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake” but me I would turn it down. However, I’d eat all the raspberries I could get my hands on! In fact the thought of raspberries and whipped cream have me slobbering (salivating).
I would eat that!…looks so good.
I watched the video of Matt cooking breakfast. I have cooked eggs in the center hole of loaf bread many times but not lately. I think I have heard it called “egg in a basket” but I think it also goes by other names. I like Treet better than Spam, maybe it is because Daddy would often use it for sandwiches he would take to work when I was a kid and I would sometimes eat a piece of it.
I did that too in the past but I quit eating store bought bread. You can’t do that with a biscuit a piece of cornbread. Or, maybe you could.
That looks and sounds simply divine.
I surely remember walking the “crick” to pick the raspberries from along the bank.
They were good on hot oatmeal with lots of fresh cream.
I also remember white berries. I might be thinking of dew berries but I do think there were white raspberries?
Anyhow, this brought back fond memories to an ol’ man’s heart.
Walking the shallow crick to pick berries…to gather mint…and to catch frogs, crawdaddies, jack uglies, mud dogs and bream and sun fish.
Or, maybe to just waller around in water!
It is sometimes hard to take in just what God has provided for our enjoyment.
Thank You!
The dew berries I know are black. They resemble a blackberry except their color is often darker and they are much more delicate when they are ripe. Instead of growing a cane like blackberries they grow a long wandering vine. But, different people have different names for common things.
Sounds like a great summertime light dessert. By the way, what is the connection between a “trifle” and the use of “trifling” to mean lazy? And is trifling an Appalachian word or more widely used? I grew up hearing it but have not now for a long time. We saw some red blackberries yesterday but no ripe ones as yet. As you say, they would also be another good choice for a trifle.
Ron, I’m not sure but interesting to study on 🙂
I was thinking of “trifling” as I read this today. If trifling means lazy, with the way I now hurt with arthritis and the other things going on, I am getting more and more trifling everyday. I have heard the word “trifling” used to describe someone lazy or no good all of my life. If the weather forecast of 90-95 degrees and high humidity for this week holds true, I think I will have a good excuse for being trifling.
That trifle looks delicious and fresh. I’d like to see the babies eating it and get their opinions on how dessert tasted! I always like to see a baby’s eyes get big and a little one really enjoying desserts. To us it is all familiar, to them it’s all new and wonderful! Have a blessed day in the garden and if I know you, you’ll be busy finding things to do and enjoy all day long!
Trifles are so simple but oh so delicious! I like strawberry but imagine those wild raspberries were wonderful.
The trifle looks delicious! On a serious note, this past weekend I watched the two videos that Peter Santanello (sp?) put out on the aftermath of hurricane helene eight months later. Oh my goodness,what an eye opener!! The news media did not do this justice! The amount of damage is too much to fathom. So heartbreaking,and so many people still needing help!
God bless all the people in the recovery effort. Please lets remember to continue to pray and continue to give to the victims and support all the volunteers. Watch his videos,they are powerful!
Hi Tipper this ain’t got nothing to do with a Trifle it’s a word of wisdom that makes me laugh every time my Brother used this saying on certain things that you could not do ever he’d say why that would be like waving sugar under a dead horses nose..and another one he’d use was that would be like pushing a rope up a hill.God Rest his soul I Miss him so much..
We are just about ready to pick wild berries around here in East TN. I haven’t found a patch that’s sweet yet but watching close. We compete with the birds every year. They won last year, but I’m feeling lucky this year. Ha Ha
That looks so good! It’s getting very hard to find them here. We scour the roadsides to find them, but there aren’t many. When I was a girl, Momma took us and we could find a many as we could pick. My grandson helped me pick Mulberries Saturday morning. They too are getting harder to find.
The raspberry trifle looks delicious. On our dessert table yesterday for our Father’s lunch, my daughter in law made a strawberry trifle.
Was our West Virginia BP&A family affected by the flood? I pray everyone is safe.