| Summary: | duff n At Heart's Content the three basic meals of the day were: Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea. The men who worked early, say at 6.00 a.m. usually "boiled the kettle" and had a cupt of tea and a slice of bread. However, at 8.00 everybody had breakfa st which was a fairly heavy meal of porridge, eggs, or fish. Dinner was at 1.00 p.m. and again there was a heavy meal designed for a particular day; Tuesday and Thursday were "duff" days when the meal was vegetables of different kinds, salt beef or salt pork, and pease pudding, Wednesday and Friday were fish days when the meal was either fresh or salt cod, or herring, or some other variety of fish; Saturday was pea -soup day generally, but some people varied the kind of soup, Sunday was usually a feast day and if possible some kind of fresh meat was the basic food for dinner. Of course (over DNE-cit JH 10/71 Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I Side one of two. Side two is: D_ 14895.
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