Which is the tastiest Protestant traybake?

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NI Protestants are famed for their tray bakes but which is the best traybake of all?

I’m thinking something crunchy and chocolatey, a tiffin like thing. But are there unchocolatey traybakes that I just haven’t been exposed to? Are they keeping all the best recipes to themselves, strictly to be eaten behind closed doors?

And does it get a bit competitive? Does Annie cast aspersions on Doris’ traybaking abilities?

But surely bashing up digestives is very therapeutic, titans? Getting at a bunch in a bag with a rolling pin is always my favourite part of making cheesecake.

This thread... My heart. The memories. (Crazy Prices!)

Thank you so much for the sponge advice/recipes 💞

Carrot and orange 'salad'. Basically orange jelly with grated carrot in it.???

There also a lime jelly with cucumber in it!

And Florida salad it's basically tinned orange and grapes in salad cream/ mayo

I love this thread so much.
I had no idea there were no coffee mornings in England.
What do they do?

I've never been to northern Ireland - have been to Dublin, cork, galway but have mainly stayed quite far west.
If I went to Belfast would it basically be indistinguishable from Glasgow?
Would it be like a second spiritual home?
Us weedgies say 'wean' and various other words from this thread that sound very familiar.

I had no idea there were no coffee mornings in England.

me neither. is it really, really true?

@widgetbeana, was on a work trip and goodness knows what they made of me and my Loacker snack wafers...

Called in to Asda today for condensed milk.

I am home with the Light Condensed milk. The regular stuff was sold out. Wondering if it is a direct result of this thread.

Light Condensed milk fgs. Whatever next?

Australians love a tray bake (called a “slice”).

OHHHH!

Only in NI would you find these

So much coconut !! These are lovely though and so easy to make . Diphalf the biscuit in chocolate and leave to cool on greaseproof paper .

I'm up at my folks atm and have just finished one of my da's frys. Sausages, bacon, egg, black and white pudding, soda and potato bead and a pancake. Served with HP sauce, a big mug of tea and finished with fresh orange wedges.

I am blissed out.

Haven’t made these in years

I love reading the names of all the authors of the recipes.

Such ordinary names. Such an amazing legacy. :-)

I’m RC and was born in Derry. I think my first memory of traybakes was a woman delivering some before a family funeral, and an aunt told me it was her Protestant colleague showing off about how much more money “them Prods” had, to be able to use all those expensive ingredients. This would have been early ‘80s... Catholic baking involved more flour and considerably less chocolate etc.

OP what have you done?

But all the rest of you have missed the main question or just took it as something you knew. WTF is a whisky bottle tin? mentioned as a way of doing a Christmas log way back. I think it had to be lined but the poster had a work around.

Can I simply cut my whisky bottles in two? Please inform a sad Prod Englishthing how, or where you get them.

My Mum and Grandma (both English) used to make Bible cake. It is quite an old recipe in England.

@PierreBezukov Donnelly's bakery in Ballycastle is hard to beat though.

I work in a mainly catholic party of Derry and I've had my eyes opened to the vast array of pastries! Could be an alternative to the Protestant traybake

I can confirm Methodists have no such decadence (unless things have moved on since the 80s).

I'm a Methodist and can confirm that we have wonderful coffee mornings - had a Fair Trade one last week in fact. We have plenty of decadence in the cakes (and traybakes) too

That said, I've been to one at the Baptist Church this morning - I can be very ecumenical for a coffee morning / cake sale

My aunts and cousins were the mainstays of many a SWRI committee.
Their traybakes were and are amazing. Such a lovely thread OP

At Tesco (Stewart's it used to be) buying stuff for fifteens and pineapple delight as a direct result of this thread.

Hard to beat a wee bit of pineapple delight, so it is

@dionethediabolist that full Ulster fry sounds great but had to laugh at finishing it off with fresh orange wedges - an attempt to make 'the heart attack on a plate' seem healthy?

@superloud there are many similarities between Belfast and Glasgow. and not just the high levels of heart disease

You should check out the North Antrim coast. In Ballycastle there is a little cafe right on the prom/ sea front that sells caramel squares that are out of this world.

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Would you not just make 2 photocopies of the recipe book and then all three of you have the recipes
Is it ok for a Catholic to make the Pineapple slices from a Protestant recipe book Purpletigers ?
In my defence my dad was a NI reared Protestant ( English born).

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Is truffles a thing in NI? There’s as many truffles recipes here as there are houses.

TRUFFLES! Don’t you be coming over here with your high fauluten forrin food!’

I did think this must be the case before no one had mentioned it yet! I’ve dug out the recipes, and rather surprised to see they contain sherry. We made them ourselves when kids 😂