How the U.K. found its official Platinum Jubilee dessert.
And proof that this jubilee will be a very British combination of old and new lies in the layers of Jemma Melvin’s “platinum pudding,” which bested almost 5,000 rivals in a special bake-off to find an official dessert to mark the occasion.
The trifle may be best known in the United States for character Rachel Green’s ill-fated effort at making one on a Thanksgiving episode of “Friends.” Ysewijn, a Belgian culinary historian and author, said the first recipe for trifle dates to the 16th century, although it did not contain any layers then. They appeared slightly later, “and it’s been evolving ever since,” she said.Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to have a cake or pudding created for a jubilee, when she celebrated 60 years on the throne in June 1897, Ysewijn said.
The dish, which still appears on British menus, is made with mayonnaise, a reduction of red wine, along with sultanas, almonds, curry powder and mango chutney, said Pizey, the executive pastry chef at Fortnum & Mason, a luxury London department store founded in 1707 and known to some as the “queen’s grocer.”
He said that pictures of her trifle and the recipe had been sent to Buckingham Palace, and he believed it was “a given” that at some point the queen would try the trifle.
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