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.
Advertise here
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.
Lassy buns
Soft molasses buns spiced with ginger, cinnamon and allspice.
Makes twelve to twenty-four · About fifteen minutes in the oven
What you need
- molasses
- boiling water
- baking soda
- butter or rendered pork fat
- brown sugar
- egg
- milk
- flour
- allspice
- ginger
- cinnamon
- sea salt
- raisins
How it's done
- 1. Mix the molasses, boiling water and baking soda in a large bowl and let it foam up.
- 2. Stir in the brown sugar, butter, egg and milk.
- 3. Work in the flour, salt and spices to a soft dough, and the raisins if you are using them.
- 4. Drop spoonfuls onto a lined pan.
- 5. Bake about fifteen minutes, until they are set and still soft.
- 6. For the older way, render small pieces of fat pork and use that fat in place of the butter.
Where to get a feed
At any bake sale, church time or craft fair. Usually the first plate to go.
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
