How to pronounce Fifteens

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˌfɪfˈtiːnz/. In plain English letters that is fif-TEENZ, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Fifteens?

Fifteens is a dessert of the United Kingdom. Where it comes from: Northern Ireland. People usually eat it at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and dairy & cheese. It tastes sweet.

Where Fifteens comes from

Fifteens is one of 56 signature dishes of the United Kingdom on this map. See all dishes from Northern Ireland.

• Belfast bap · Bread & pastry · Northern Ireland

  The Belfast bap is a large, crusty white bread roll from Belfast, about half the size of a small loaf, with an airy, chewy white crumb and a hard top crust baked until it is almost burnt.

• Champ · Main dish · Northern Ireland

  Champ is mashed potato mixed with chopped scallions, or spring onions, butter and milk, seasoned with salt and pepper.

• Yellowman · Snack · Northern Ireland

  Yellowman, or yellaman, is a golden, crunchy toffee from Northern Ireland, made by boiling golden syrup and sugar to the hard-crack stage and then adding vinegar and baking soda, which fizz and fill it with bubbles.

• Fish and chips · Main dish · London and Lancashire

  Fish and chips comes from two traditions that met in the 19th century: fried fish brought to London by Jewish immigrants from Portugal and Spain, and fried potatoes sold in the industrial north.

• Full English breakfast · Main dish · England

  The full English breakfast grew from the large breakfasts of the country house in the Victorian era, when gentry showed off the produce of their estates.

• Haggis · Main dish · Scotland

  Haggis is a savoury pudding of sheep's heart, liver and lungs, minced with oatmeal, onion, suet and spices, and traditionally cooked in the animal's stomach.

Food of the United Kingdom

Dishes like Fifteens in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Fifteens:

• Kouign-amann · Dessert · Douarnenez, France

  Kouign-amann is a round, sticky Breton cake whose name means "cake" and "butter" in the Breton language.

• Tompouce tompoes · Dessert · North Holland, Netherlands

  The tompouce, or tompoes, is a rectangular pastry of two layers of puff pastry with sweet yellow pastry cream between them and smooth pink icing on top.

• Mattentaart Geraardsbergse mattentaart · Dessert · East Flanders, Belgium

  Mattentaart is a tart from Geraardsbergen in East Flanders: puff pastry above and below a filling of matten, curds made from whole milk and buttermilk, mixed with eggs, sugar and almonds.

• Southern Jutland coffee table Sønderjysk kaffebord · Dessert · Southern Jutland, Denmark

  The Sønderjysk kaffebord, the Southern Jutland coffee table, is a tradition that opens with seven kinds of soft baked goods, continues with a couple of layer cakes and ends with at least seven kinds of biscuits.