Interviewer: Um what about the um- the room that you cooked in? Speaker: Kitchen. Interviewer: You didn't have one- in a hot day, did you use it? What did you do on a hot day? Speaker: No, we had a- a log building out there. And a platform between the house and it. And that was what we called a summer kitchen. ... Had a stove out there and then hot time in the summer the cooking was done out there. And if it wasn't too hot we eat out there. And if it was hot, like this kind of weather, we'd bring it in, eat in here.

Interviewer: Um, some people had um a room a-- out back of their kitchen that they um sometimes would cook in in the summer if it was very hot. ... What did they call that? Speaker: That's the summer-kitchen and the back-kitchen. Yeah. And then some people had a house outside too, and they called it the milkhouse. And it was made of stone and they used to keep their milk and butter and-stuff in there.

But th-- I use the one at the back door here, where I built that veranda. There was a- a summer-kitchen or a back-kitchen, and then you went out and went down a few steps and the roof went ahead out you-see.

Interviewer: Ever move your stove in the summertime? Speaker: No, we- we uh- we never had a summer kitchen. ... We just had the one kitchen.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. What else was in your kitchen besides the stove? Speaker: The summer kitchen? Interviewer: No th- the main kitchen.

The wash day. ... possibly one day she would do the white clothes and uh, she would always soak them out on the back uh, there's a little veranda, just uh, on the back of the summer kitchen which led into the cellar there.

The garden was just in front of the um, wood-shed which was just beside the summer kitchen.

... she would put that under the table, right in the centre under the table to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn't eat supper at all in the summer kitchen without this smudge under the table and the smoke would- would come up from under the table but it didn't bother us at all we ate on-

They'd pick up the pots of beans and the bread and- and the bread and butter, every person would come laden to the, um- to the, ah, meeting hall and we'd wind up with a bean supper after skating all night, see.

Interviewer: And the others- what did you call the extra meals then? Speaker: Well, we called it, ah, ah, our tea. Our- our- before four-o-clock- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: They always called the men in to get tea. Interviewer: Tea. That was tea? Speaker: Yeah. And, ah, then, ah, the- what we called supper was shortly- we took before we went to bed. Interviewer: Yes. So you had four good- Speaker: Four meals. Interviewer: Four good meals a day.

Speaker: And we needed a lot of meat. And we had meat for breakfast, meat for dinner and meat for supper. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: So that, ah- and then for supper we had our warmed up potatoes. See, we had our dinner at twelve-o-clock. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And at supper we'd have warmed up potatoes that was left from dinner and cold meat.

About three-o-clock he'd come in and I'd have the supper ready then from whatever the dinner for my husband. ... 'Cause he didn't come home for dinner, he took a lunch. But, oh, it was a busy life, you-know-

Speaker: Well, ah, I don't know why they called it the tea meeting. Interviewer: 'Cause the- 'cause the next meal is your tea isn't it? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: But, no, ah, it was the tea meeting and we all went and- and we would go, like, for supper. And then they'd have a program after that.

Speaker: ... but I remember so well that we'd potato salad every meal. Not every meal but every day, you-know, for supper for a long time. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Potato salad and cold meat.

And, ah, we'd have that with a piece of cake for supper. And that was- different all- the menu was altogether different- ... Than what it is now.

Interviewer: What do you mean wake- wake them? Speaker: Wake them here, an open casket, you-know? People come here, you-know, and- Interviewer: Oh. Interviewer 2: Pay respect? Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Have a meal, have a supper, you-know. The women prepare a meal, you-know, and- Interviewer 2: Yeah. But what- after the- after the burial did they all come together and have another supper- Speaker: Oh yeah, the friends did. Just mostly the friends.

Oh, the old people couldn't stand for the like of that at all. He says, "You take your breakfast here in the morning and your supper in England or Ireland in the evening." An idea- oh that's the idea of it just took in person- shouldn't be allowed, shouldn't be allowed, at all. And told about the, ah, talking machines.

Interviewer: They called that a jigger? Speaker: Yeah. For the knocking around. But he says, "You'd say to your brother, 'Let's run down to the Ottawa after supper and, ah- to see the walking talkies. See the people there all walking talking machine, ah, down at the Nelson.'"

No. We, ah, had a nice supper up there, and a neighbour man brought us double buggy, and, ah, my brothers, well they had a buggy load of their own, do-you-see. Ah, and they all come to the, ah, station and brought us at about twelve-o'-clock at night.

I, ah- (clears throat) to tuck me in, to give me supper, there'd be a kitchen there and a dang big dog, he'd stand to be that height, and the big long tongue, and- it was hot, you-know, it was a hot day. And I was sitting across the table from him, and they were thirsty from sitting around.