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42 - Wednesday, December 21, 1988 - North Shore News

LIFESTYLES

Xmas past remembered

From page 44

fascination as Dad carefully spread
newspapers on the kitchen table
and, with sleeves rolled up above
his elbows and the turkey placed
squarely in front of him, he’d
pluck the pin feathers, pull the
tendons and draw out the ‘‘inners’’
while we, shaking in a distant
doorway, suppressed a gasp and
almost gagged with the smell and
horror of it.

The stuffing never varied. Sage
and sausage meat which, blissfully
ignorant of trichinosis, we were
allowed to sample in its raw state.

My grandmother had died when
Dad was a little boy and a com-
passionate housekeeper/cook had
allowed him into her kitchen to
watch and learn. And Icarn he did!
Deep-fried cake doughnuts dusted
with icing sugar; ‘cherry and
sultana raisin cakes; plim pud-
ding; and the best shortbread this
side of Scotland, baked in thick
rounds to be breken — never cut.

The cakes and pudding were
made in November on blustery
weekends. Dad would sit in the
chair by the wood stove, beating
the batter with his bare hands
while my sister and I stood squinu-
ing at his side, waiting for that
moment when he would scoop up a
lump of fluffy butter and sugar
and, to the despair of kitchen
purists everywhere, let us lick his
fi: cers, while Mother lameated
over the decreasing number of
cherries left for the cakes.

To my mother, tie cakes were
always ‘‘a wee bit overfised’’ (or
“*underfired”). To us, they were
absolutely delectable.

On Christmas afternoon, when
visitors came calling, the cakes and
shortbread were served in a fine,
silver basket, along with a glass of
port wine, while we sipped Stones
ginger beer, deliberately letting the
fizzy bubbles burst against our
noses.

Dad cooked the whole
Christmas dinner unaided. It was

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which we had turkey.

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