Scots (lapses) catholic here (notice NOBODY says ex Catholic, no ex Catholics just bad ones 😉)
For me it has to be fly cemetery! Closely followed by tablet and tiffin.
"what do atheists have?!
Weightwatchers" 😂😂😂
I keep seeing trailers for new series of Derry girls, is first series available on catch up? If not will it make sense to me if I haven't seen s1?
TeacupDrama - yep 2 local "church cafes" here always busy, get a decent mug of tea and a cake for £2.50 dd and her friends prefer it to Costa cos the cakes are better and there's sofas for them all to sit on - like friends!
"And no protestant woman i know measures out her ingredients. Its all by eye and taste!" This is where I'm struggling to post recipes. I was taught cooking and baking by my mum and grannies - not a weighing scale or a measuring jug between them! My ex mil (lovely lady but not confident with new recipes) once asked mum for the recipe for fruit slice (fly cemetery) mum was a bit 
Because she has no idea what quantities of what she uses and if she hasn't got X in she'll use y instead etc. She just gets the mixing bowl out and cracks on. I've had conversations with her when I'm on the phone going "mum this tiffin X I'm making is looking a bit sloppy/dry/lumpy/too smooth" (yep it's possible for it to be too smooth) and she'll tell me "add more X" or "give it good quick whisk" etc
I don't have weighing scales even now, I've a measuring jug but that's because I was making something with dd and she wanted to know the measurements so she could do it herself and show a friend (we've a tiny kitchen).
I've lost count of how many/much Victoria sponges, fairy cakes, shortness, fruit slice, lemon drizzle, chocolate sponge, fruit cake I've made over the years...no idea what the quantities were just did it by eye
"I have even come across a recipe using cold mashed potato in a traybake
Coconut macaroons made with potato.....(I'm from Scottish Presbyterian stock)"
Yes my family seem to tend to extremes, those that aren't Catholic are brethren! (Yes work that one out!) so I wonder if the traybake thing being popular in Scotland and certain recipes - like macaroon - have been borne not only out of poverty (no cook recipes requiring no fuel to cook) but also out of creating recipes that fit in with "no cooking on the sabbath" rules too?
😂 at all the NI Protestant dps/dh's that are getting blindsided as a result of this thread! Poor guys!
"Dp? I have a question"
Completely unprepared for the blindside "yes darling what?"
Hangry Accusatory tone "why have I not been presented with delicious tray bakes?!"
Dp blindsided stuttering and desperately wanting their mammy there "erm...er...what?!" 😂😂😂
"I just buy a bar of Lees occasionally" 😱sacrilege! They bear little resemblance to a good home made macaroon.
Something has just occurred to me, I'm a Scot living in Scotland but I've also lived in England (and Wales but was too young to remember that) totally normal here to get in corner shops any manner of home made delicacies (tablet, macaroon, snowballs, fruit slice...) - just realised NEVER seen that in England and I've lived all over England! Why is that?!
"Hang on, I thought Tiffin was an Aussie thing?" Nope scots invention. I've a fair few relatives in aus and NZ who've passed on various recipes to descendants, mainly tiffin, scotch pancakes (nothing like pikelets 🤔), tattie scones etc
"I have to hold back when we visit as I just want to eat everything, but I'd look like a gannet" my very English Protestant ex came very unstuck on our first visit to Scotland by not pacing himself and eating too much at the first couple of relatives we visited one particular day - if you've seen the vicar of dibley episode where she has to eat several Christmas dinners? Yep that was pretty much him 😂😂
Not helped by the fact he thought "high tea" and "afternoon tea" were the same. He'd a good appetite and was a fit sporty guy at the time but he definitely wasn't used to "feeder" scots Catholics! He was also needing the loo rather more than usual too as he wasn't used to drinking so much tea (or being ignored when he said "no" when asked if he wanted one - he did twig after a couple of days "do I want tea is a rhetorical question up here right?"
When he was regaling his parents (Yorkshire folk) with the tales of his experiences in Scotland they were very amused and reciprocated with similar stories of visits to older relatives, a few of whom were it turned out (to his surprise) of scots/Irish descent. Not sure why he was surprised as he's a scots surname, but I guess he thought it went much further back.
When I first moved back I gained 1.5 stone by making the mistake of constantly indulging in things I'd normally only have access to/eaten a few times a year before (Yep learnt the hard way a hot roll for breakfast and a bar of tablet or macaroon every day not a good idea!)
"I know what tablet is but it's not nice" 😱 it's delicious!!
For those not in the know it's a confection made from sugar, condensed milk, butter and vanilla extract (NOT essence). It's sort of a hard crumbly fudge for lack of a better description, great with strong coffee actually.
"My great aunt used to make us After Eight sandwiches, if you think apple and mars bar is weird!" ER...if so I genuinely think we might be related! Was she scots living in glasgow but not originally from there? My great granny did this.
"Lemon slices and jelly pieces are my absolute favs" I suspect your jelly pieces and mine (weegie here) are very different!