the.com/sherry trifle

means A traditional English dessert built in layers of sponge cake soaked in sherry, fruit or jam, custard, and whipped cream, served chilled in a glass bowl.

from "Trifle" comes from the Old French 'trufle,' meaning something of little importance or a frivolous thing — itself possibly tied to 'truffe,' a deception or mockery. The name was a wink: a dish thrown together from leftover cake and odds and ends, supposedly trifling and unserious. The earliest English trifles were just thickened sweet cream; over the centuries the booze-soaked sponge and custard layers piled on, until the "trifle" became anything but trifling. The "sherry" is later English embellishment — the fortified wine from Jerez in Spain, whose name 'sherry' is an Anglicized mangling of 'Jerez' itself.