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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.

Molasses raisin bread

A dark yeast loaf made with molasses and a heavy hand of raisins.

Makes four loaves · About an hour and twenty minutes, plus two risings

What you need

  • 1 cup lukewarm water
  • 2 tbsp white sugar
  • 2 envelopes dry yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 8 cups all purpose flour, about
  • 1 1/2 cups lukewarm milk
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 3/4 cup melted butter
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 3 cups raisins

How it's done

  1. 1. Stir the sugar into the lukewarm water, sprinkle the yeast over it, and leave it to proof.
  2. 2. In a large bowl, stir together three cups of the flour, the milk, molasses, melted butter, eggs and salt, then add the proofed yeast.
  3. 3. Mix four or five minutes, then work in the rest of the flour gradually until you have a soft dough that pulls away from the bowl.
  4. 4. Add the raisins and knead until they are through it evenly.
  5. 5. Turn out on a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic.
  6. 6. Cover with a damp cloth and let it rise until doubled.
  7. 7. Divide into twelve balls, three to each greased loaf pan, cover, and let them rise again.
  8. 8. Bake at 350°F for forty to fifty minutes, until the loaves sound hollow.

Where to get a feed

Sold at bake sales, church suppers and small bakeries. Best the day it is made; toasted after that.

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