levener

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/23383

elevener 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 cup of tea and a slice of bread. However, at 8.00 everybody had breakfast 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 [reverse] Sunday morning breakfast was special too, and the traditional "fish and brewis" was served by most housewives. Most of the women made sure to cook enough for the Sunday dinner that there would be "hash" for the Monday dinner. I think the reason for this was that Monday was wash-day, and the day was such a busy one that dinner could be served in a hurry. Tea was at 6.00 p.m. Again there was a fairly heavy meal of potato or fish cakes, or baked beans, or macaroni, etc. Besides the three basic meals, there was a lunch at 11.00 a.m. between breakfast and dinner called the "levener", usually a cup of tea and a biscuit or bun. There was another lunch at 4.00 p.m. called the "fourer" and again a cup of tea and a biscuit. Before bedtime at about 10.00 p.m. there was a supper, mainly tea, toast, cake, jam, but not a heavy meal as was served in some communities. JH 10/71 DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I Used I elevener, eleven, levener, LUNCH, MUG UP Checked by Rebecca Nolan on Thu 19 Feb 2015; Reverse side of E-13096. Source listed as C 70-15