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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

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.

Toutons

Rounds of bread dough fried in a pan and eaten hot with butter and molasses.

Makes about eight · Fifteen minutes, if the dough is already made

What you need

  • 1 lb leftover white bread dough
  • canola oil or butter for frying
  • butter and fancy molasses, to serve

How it's done

  1. 1. Form the dough into balls about two ounces each and flatten them into rounds three to four inches across and half an inch thick.
  2. 2. Rest them on a floured surface fifteen or twenty minutes so they rise a little.
  3. 3. Fry slowly in oil, or oil and butter, over medium heat until golden underneath.
  4. 4. Turn them and fry the other side the same.
  5. 5. Hold them warm in a low oven if you are cooking a batch.
  6. 6. Serve hot with butter and molasses run over them.

Where to get a feed

Breakfast at almost any traditional kitchen in the province; the usual first thing a visitor is fed.

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