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Games

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Trivia

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.

Jiggs dinner

The Sunday boiled dinner: salt beef and root vegetables in one pot, with pease pudding boiled in a bag alongside.

Feeds six · Most of a morning, and an overnight soak before it

What you need

  • 2 lb salt beef
  • 1 green cabbage
  • 1 turnip
  • 6 carrots
  • 6 large potatoes
  • 2 c yellow split peas
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • cracked black pepper
  • 1 1/2 c flour (for the duff)
  • 3/4 c water
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

How it's done

  1. 1. The night before, soak the salt beef in cold water in the fridge, and soak the split peas in a separate bowl.
  2. 2. In the morning, drain and rinse the beef. Tie the drained peas loosely in a cotton pudding bag — loose, because they swell.
  3. 3. Put the beef and the pea bag in a large stock pot, cover well with water, and simmer about two hours.
  4. 4. Cut the cabbage in wedges, peel the carrots, and cut the turnip in thick wedges. Add them to the pot and boil about thirty minutes.
  5. 5. Add the potatoes and boil until everything is tender.
  6. 6. Lift out the pea bag, turn the peas into a bowl, and mash them with the butter and pepper.
  7. 7. Serve the beef and vegetables from the pot with a spoon of pease pudding on each plate.

Where to get a feed

A hall supper, a church dinner or a garden party — the Sunday dinner on the shore. Most places that serve it do it one day a week; ask which.

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