Meera Sodha’s recipe for rhubarb and custard trifle

Nostalgia and comfort combine in abundance in this retro dessert that’s strictly for kids of all ages The first time I had rhubarb and custard together was in a boiled sweet from a big jar in my mum’s corner shop. You could flip the sweet in your mouth and rub the flavour you wanted with your tongue. Too tart? Flip to the custard side. Too creamy? Flip again. It was one of the best ways to spend 10 minutes as a seven-year-old in the early 1990s. A few decades on, a lot has changed. Mum no lon...

By Meera Sodha