Just when you witnessed the hilarious scene from Channel 4’s Derry Girls in which the religious and cultural divisions between Catholics and Protestants were debated, Mumsnet has waded into the action with a discussion on the best Protestant traybakes.
A user called FiddleFaddleDingDong asks:
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?
Most claim to enjoy a Fifteen.
WhoWasIt states:
No idea what a protestant tray bake is. Do they have one for Catholics and Methodists too? If you’re a Quaker, is it made with oats?
I’m partial to a rocky road tray bake myself.
madminimoomin agrees that traybakes were an essential part of childhood:
Snowballs are also a good one, but again no baking or trays required.
Coconut mixed with condensed milk, rolled into a ball and covered with melted chocolate. Put in the fridge until the chocolate sets.
A northern Irish Protestant staple growing up!
And Chocolatepeanuts says her ‘best prod friend’ does these’ amazing mars bar rice krispie squares’:
They look like a caramel square until they are sliced in the tray. A maz ing. Traybakes definitely should have made the blackboard. Protestant events are a tray bake extravaganza!
But Chocolatepeanuts says Catholics love traybakes:
They just cant make them like protestants!
Duggeeandthesquirrels found the whole thread entertaining:
This thread is amazing. I need to steal my mum’s old WI recipe book next time I visit home.
Malteaser buns, caramel squares, rice crispie squares with marshmallow and Highland toffee bars melted in.
Someone mentioned top hats upthread and I had a flashback to kids’ birthday parties, which just continued when people mentioned mars bar and apple sandwiches! I remember them being quite nice, but it must be 30 years since I last had one… Not sure I fancy trying them again envy.