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Games

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The Board

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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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.

Fish cakes

Salt cod and mashed potato mixed with onion and savoury and fried as cakes.

Makes about eighteen · Forty-five minutes, after an overnight soak

What you need

  • 1 1/2 lb salt dried cod
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 6 cups mashed potato
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 2 tbsp dried savoury
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper

How it's done

  1. 1. Soak the salt cod overnight in cold water.
  2. 2. Simmer it about fifteen minutes, drain, and let it cool.
  3. 3. Flake the fish apart with a fork.
  4. 4. Soften the onion in the butter.
  5. 5. Mix the fish, onion, mashed potato, egg, pepper and savoury together.
  6. 6. Form small cakes and roll them in flour.
  7. 7. Fry in canola oil over medium heat until golden on both sides. Serve with scrunchions or mustard pickles.

Where to get a feed

A breakfast or lunch plate at a traditional kitchen; mustard pickles on the side.

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