Malteaser cake recipe - help a Catholic out

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Help on an Ecumenical matter please So I've been dipping into the world of traybakes - I can make a pretty respectable caramel square (nice, thick, chewy caramel!) and Mars bar crispy square, but I need a good recipe for Malteaser cake.

I tried the BBC Good Food recipe the other day and it didn't have that lovely feeling of your pupils dilating with the sweetness of it all like a good traybake normally has. Am I doomed to never get it right because of my lack of Prod blood? Help! How can getting the right ratio of digestive biscuits, butter, syrup and chocolate be so hard?!

I'm normally a good baker! Honest!

Supermac supremacy! All the south Belfast ladies!

Egg, my presents consisted of sheets, tea sets, Pyrex dishes etc. My most extravagant was a food mixer/processor that was never used.

Someone bought me Ewbank, (a carpet sweeper for the young uns).

We started married life with very little. DHs bed from his parents’, a second hand twin tub, suite of furniture borrowed from my Dsis who was getting married 6 month later, wardrobe and dining table and chairs, one with wonky legs donated by an aunt. Ah, them were the days.

My SIL loves her Ewbank.
I didn't even have a twin tub, I had a spin dryer. When we bought a house I got an automatic washing machine, but used the spin dryer when it broke down. I grew up with a twin tub, the mangle was used as back up.
The Mater hospital had a mangle clinic for mangled fingers.
I am ancient. In primary school we did knitting and embroidery, and darning.

So did I, I am not yet ancient, however I had the most wonderful P6/7 teacher who taught exactly as she had for the last 30 years, and woe betide anyone who tried to update her. I feel we're quite lucky for education over here

My p3 teacher used to say woe betide. She was keen on slapping.

My Granda who was born in the 1890s had an old mangle in his back yard. We loved turning the handle. Luckily we didn’t trap any fingers.

I loved needlework in PS. My 2 older Dsis learned me to knit. In through the bunny hole, round the big tree, out through the bunny hole and off goes she.
I was ok with the embroidery x’s but terrible at machine sewing in Secondary school.

As I was passing a different Tesco Metro I for an extra tin of condensed milk. They didn’t have any and the girl said I was the 3rd person today asking for it.

The recipe for Lemon squares only needed half, so I used the other half for some 15s. All are in the fridge setting.

I used to go in to Dd1's class to help with knitting, but then garda vetting came in and I think knitting stopped. Teaching thirty kids to knit without extra adults would be hard.
My brother had a friend who went off to evangalise in Blackpool and impregnated a girl who came to a Belfast to marry him.She got a job folding linen hankies into boxes, I thought that was really lovely. My mother wasn't enthusiastic.
If I had half a tin of condensed milk I'd eat it!

My p3 teacher used to say woe betide.

My mum used to be fond of 'woe betide you if...'

She's in her late 80s and frankly if she said it to me now, it would make me think twice about what I was going to do

I'd quite like to fold linen hankies into boxes. Nice, peaceful sounding occupation. Especially if you got to put little sprigs of lavender in.

One of the houses up at the folk museum has a lovely yard all set up with a mangle. I really miss the folk museum this year, it's usually one of our first days out once the weather pics up a bit. DH says I go there for interior design ideas

Finally finished.

My Lemon squares
15s minus the cherries

Dhs cousin had her wedding reception in the big house at the folk museum, but it was winter so too dark to wander round. There were strawberries dipped in chocolate in the boring photos bit.
I was about 12, a wedding,a baby, and a career in hanky folding sounded better than Latin homework.

I love the Folk park and the smell of the turf burning in the little houses.Transports me back to the days of my Grandparents and Great grandparents.
DS loved the transport side of the museum. So much so we had an annual pass. He never tired of seeing it.
Thank goodness for it as he was a mighty dynamo, and it was a godsend on a rainy weekend.
W5 was also another one of his favourites.

Just had a cup of tea and a Lemon Square. Very tasty 😬

I quite liked Latin homework. I was not happy when all the schools stopped doing Latin. Maths now.

Love the transport side of the folk museum too. There's something so satisfying about those big shiny trains. And the sweet shop! Summer is going to be a bit rubbish this year. My youngest was too little last year to properly appreciate our day trips, and my eldest will probably be too cool next year, so I was really looking forward to squishing in all the old faithfuls this year.

The notion is on me for lemon squares now and no chance of condensed milk anywhere!

DS school still teaches Latin. He has chosen it for GCSE next year, although the way things are going who knows what next year will bring regarding exams

While out on our walk today we found a Mauds open so I partook of a Pooh bear cone while Dsis opted for choccy bear.
It made her day!

Are you into up cycling old furniture Beatrix?

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Nice to hear it's still going somewhere. All these schools round here just seemed to stop it all at once. DD was really annoyed, she was looking forward to it.

I suppose you could say I used to upcycle by necessity and have never quite lost the habit I do like reusing things until they are no more. Quite literally in the case of DH's bedside cabinet from his student days, which is now my tomato stand.

Do you mean malteaser tiffin? Made a mean one for VE Day gone within the day can't even imagine the calories in it 🙈- kids fav

I remember getting told off in primary school sewing class for crocheting a long chain and not making granny squares. The girls still had to do all that while the boys got to do woodwork. I was raging at the unfairness though ironically I love knitting now.

I love the folk and transport museum, it's worth the yearly membership several times over.

I have a tin of condensed milk you'd be welcome to if you lived anywhere near me Beatrice we could do some kind of wierd drop off in a park or something to preserve Mumsnet anonymity

What?????? Highland Toffees are no more???!!!! That is beyond a joke.

I’m learning so much from this thread about the different Protestant beliefs. To my shame I had no idea of the differences between them. I have one NI prod friend. I met him when I was 28. He was like a rare, exotic creature to me and the other RC Southerners in our office

We have a few Icelands in the South, adding to the supermarket list as well as M&S food halls. I’d love to see Waitrose open here

..Ulster Folk an transport museum was a big day out as it was in Belfast, up here in the country we had the Ulster American Folk park! We had many a school trip there, fond memories of making farls on the griddle and candles in the American bit.

... is it a NI thing to rebuild old buildings in a field? Cant think of any other places like them anywhere else.

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Years ago, at one stage I saw some ( 2/3 items) from Waitrose being sold in Superquinn. I think the late Fergal Quinn owned it still at that stage.

I used to live in Scotland. An acquaintance there was a photographer and had travelled over here to do a wedding for some people she knew. When she was telling me about it afterwards she told me that they had got married “in some weird, fake, model village place” and then had their reception “down the road in a courtyard”. She liked the courtyard but was more than disparaging about the “weird, fake model village”.

The ceremony was of course in the church in the Folk Museum and then the reception in the Clandeboye Estate.

I was NOT impressed with her rudeness. Even after I told her that it is actually a real church, she still was having none of it.

Love the Ulster American Folk Park @Eve - nothing better than proper cornbread on the 4th of July!

FlaviaAlbia excellent, you could paint the tin black, and leave it on a bench in front of City Hall. Everyone will avoid it, thinking it is a teenage goth out for their lockdown walk. I'll be there to pick it up at five past - I'll be the one with the mustache