Here’s a Poor Man’s Trifle You Can Whip up Anytime You Want.

It’s like a comfort dessert!

Picture by the author of her Poor Man’s Trifle

While you certainly wouldn’t say we are poor, we aren’t rich either. The fact is that I would make it rich or poor. No matter how rich the food or how much you ate, this dessert is soothing and slips down into the cracks of your stomach after dinner.

Desserts

When we were growing up usually dessert was homemade canned fruit. It could be pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, or whatever my mum could get or pick. She loved to can fruit and we had dessert all winter.

The only other regular dessert my mum would make was pies. Again anything that could be picked or she could get a can of. Her best pies were apple and pumpkin. She always made her own crust and frequently made the lattice tops.

Those required time and with raising four hungry, busy kids time was in short supply. My mum was busy sewing our clothes and doing all the things necessary to run a home and family.

She would make this one dessert that we all loved called Poor Man’s trifle. I think she just made up the name. I like it plain but you can always make it look good with whipped cream on top.

She also would add a tin of mandarin oranges in it and would need to drain them for a bit to…