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A shared trip

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.

Turkey soup

The bird boiled down after a roast dinner, with root vegetables, savoury and rice or noodles.

One boiler · About an hour

What you need

  • turkey and the carcass
  • broth or water
  • onions
  • celery
  • garlic
  • carrots
  • turnip
  • parsnip
  • potatoes
  • noodles or rice
  • summer savoury
  • ginger
  • black pepper
  • sea salt

How it's done

  1. 1. Put twelve cups of water or stock in a large boiler with the turkey and the carcass.
  2. 2. Add onion, celery, garlic, savoury and pepper and let it boil down.
  3. 3. Take out the bones and any skin.
  4. 4. Add the carrot, turnip, parsnip and potato, cut small, and boil until tender.
  5. 5. Add noodles or rice near the end and cook them through.
  6. 6. Season and serve. Bottled and kept cold it will do a week.

Where to get a feed

The week after Christmas or Thanksgiving, in any house that roasted a turkey.

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