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?

@ElevenOhFive tbf, I could do a better job than the shower up on the hill, until the power goes to my head and I run mad anyway

Is this another one of these things like alcohol, saying RIP, all the good hymns and (I shit you not) putting your line on at William Hill - stuff that proper protestants don't do?

Re hot cross buns, I’m Catholic and they are definitely a thing. I didn’t realise there was such a baking divide though. Never heard of fifteens! Denied. I’ll be making those ASAP.

Laughed a lot at the hymns comment, though. Whenever I’ve gone to dh’s family church (c of e) I always think the hymns are a bit rubbish Apart from Jerusalem.

I've never been to NI but now i want to go there just to visit the cafes.

Someone should write a guide book!

Your mum's lemon fudge slice recipe sounds amazing SDTG

For the scones to beat all scones though, you couldn't better the Georgian House in Comber. They did raspberry and while chocolate with homemade runny raspberry jam along with many other wondrous flavours.
Apparently they're selling them in Indie Fude until they open up in new premises.

Until that happens, the RSPB cafe at Castle Espie is the alternative cafe of choice out that way.

'Just realised that I had a deprived childhood in England with my mother only baking Catholic fairy cakes with no icing. '

My Catholic DH loves Catholic fairy cakes and is appalled when I make the much nicer Protestant cheesecakes (not the Philadelphia type, the pastry on bottom, jam in middle and sponge on top bun)

I've been laughing at 'Protestants love soup' for days

"Traybake alert. Fifteens in actual traybake form this morning in Hillside Garden centre. Never seen it before." Wonder if that's someone outing themselves as an mner?

Weegie here that's never been to Ireland (would love to) weirdly I have a close friend who's Belfast born and bred, maybe that's why we get on? Such similar cultural backgrounds?

Re beans on a fry, I would say yes but then I'm a veggie so need as many items as poss to make one up.

"Teacakes are gooey marshmallow stuff on a biscuit base, covered in chocolate" just what I was thinking a la tunnocks. Although my grannies also made the fruit bread variety that was toasted and buttered.

Nobody answered my query on Derry girls.

Nobody has mentioned The Prom cafe in Larne, amazing scones baked fresh all day long.

I was in The Prom earlier today and I was drooling over the scones. Well, not actually over them, that would have been unhygienic. But they were huge and I knew if I ate one then I wouldn't be able to eat my dinner. But they looked so so good.

@isabellerossignol what a find!! 👌

Beans are compulsory

Tunnocks Teacake factoid: the marshamallowy interior isn't marshmallow at all. It's Italian meringue.

Beans are disgusting at breakfast, acceptable in a baked potato.

Beans with a cooked breakfast is an abomination. Not standard in Ireland. Thankfully.

Graphista, was your Derry Girls question about whether you'd need to have watched the first series to enjoy the second? Not especially but I would recommend watching the first series to begin with. It's on All 4 and there are only five or six half hour episodes in total.

Is now a good time to ask if any one else refers to potato bread as ‘fadge’? 🤣😳

We used to get 'fadge' in the NE of England when I was a child but I never thought it had potato in it. Much missed, nothing quite like them.

My not-from-NI ex-boyfriend nearly choked on his Cookstown sausage when my sister offered him a bit of fadge over the breakfast table one morning

Loving Derry Girls, and the soundtrack

Beans are great with a fry. The trick is to try the beans in the pan you used to fry the bacon and sausages. Fried beans.

Fadge or slims here!

This thread is fabulous! My mums a Presbyterian elder and makes the most amazing fifteens ever!!

The best days are when theres been a funeral and she drops me round a wee Tupperware box of leftover Presbyterian traybakes

@FlaviaAlbia just a quick question about your scone recipe, do they look a bit like a cinnamon swirl or is my heritage failing me?

Confusion, has it got to the point where you secretly rub your hands in glee when you hear there's another funeral in the offing?

Clicked on the thread,. Popped to Sainsbos and now have fifteens setting in the fridge. Oh well, diet starts again on Monday

This thread is fabulous! My mums a Presbyterian elder

Of all the posts on this thread, this one has stopped me in my tracks. The Presbyterian churches in my area would never in a million years let a woman be an elder. I'm delighted that they are not representative of the whole genre