Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
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Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
Blueberry duff
A steamed blueberry pudding boiled in a bag or a steamer, the same way as figgy duff.
Feeds eight · About an hour and forty minutes
What you need
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups blueberries
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
How it's done
- 1. Blend the flour, sugar and baking powder.
- 2. Add the blueberries and toss them through the flour so they sit apart.
- 3. Pour in the melted butter, milk and vanilla all at once.
- 4. Mix with a wooden spoon just until a soft dough forms.
- 5. Put it in a pudding steamer or a wet cotton pudding bag tied with string, leaving room to swell.
- 6. Boil gently an hour and a half to two hours.
- 7. Turn it out, slice it, and serve it hot with the juice.
Where to get a feed
Berry season is August. A blueberry festival or a hall supper is where you meet it made properly.
Where that comes from
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
