[Sca-cooks] Re: Trifle, dated 1604

[Mark.S Harris]

Johnnae llyn Lewis gave us a period trifle recipe
and said:
> Came across this trifle, but it has no
> sponge cake or biscuits, and it's not
> chocolate.
>
> TO MAKE A TRIFLE
>
> Take a pint of thick cream,
> and season it with sugar and ginger,
> and rose water. So stir it as you
> would then have it and make it luke warm
> in a dish on a chafing dish and coals.
> And after put it into a silver piece
> or a bowl, and so serve it to the board.
>
> Thomas Dawson
> The Good Huswifes Jewell, 1596.
> f.23

Does this mean that "trifle" was not a particular dessert/
banquet item but rather a general term for a small, dainty,
luxurious item?