Fadge vs. Traybake

When I was out on Saturday night Soda Farl reminded me that Fadge was in fact originally called Traybake so will henceforth be known as Traybake.

For those of you who don't know fadge is a kind of bread made with mashed potato and flour and cooked on a griddle. Irish people have been eating it for a long time. Traybakes are a fairly new invention and produced mainly by women for church functions - they are not culturally specific. A recipe for a typical traybake would go something like this:

3 Bags of white sugar
2 large cans of golden syrup
3 large cans of condensed milk
As many big bags of cheap marshmallows as you can find
Chopped up peanuts
Any class of sweets to hand
Coco cola (optional)

Put all ingredients in bowl and give it a good stir. Put on a tray. Bake in the fridge. If coke used drink while cooking.

Soda Farl and Traybake have been given these names as an act of retaliation as it is they who have come up with the worst, peurile nicknames for some of the other people I know.

I have already mentioned The Crock but they are also responsible for Mars Bars. Mars Bars is a friend of mine - a clever, witty, talented woman successfully working in a male-dominted profession. She also happens to be Scottish. Now there is a bit of a myth going round that people in Scotland eat deep fried mars bars so the bold Soda Farl and Traybake think it is amusing to refer to her as Mars Bars. Of course they are really terrified of her and deny totally that they call her anything but her given name when face to face with her.

Have only done 678 steps today so better get moving. Have also completed herculean task of shortlisting applications and a desperate chore it was too.

Comments

[Mary]

Is Traybake from Armagh?

[Anne]

He is indeed and Soda Farl is from Derry.

AB

[Mary]

I hope you didn't mind being included with the Mad Aunts series. You know I meant it nicely. And it was a lovely picture. When you are home I'll get you lots of pictures now that I've learned how to use my software.