On this Tuesday – 27th June 2023 – preceded by “Jimmy Reidy & Friends” with a wonderful programme from the splendid Archival Show where the focus is on Kiskeam at 8pm (the repeat of which one may hear after the Maureen Henry Show on Sunday night just after 10.30pm) we invite you to also tune into “Radio Treasures” this Tuesday from 9.10 to 11.30pm on Cork Music Station. Feel very welcome to contact the live programme by emailing corkmusicstation @gmail.com or texting 086 825 0074 – One may also WhatsApp that number. Tonight’s programme includes a very special 20 minute feature at 9.30pm regarding the recent Hoisting of Three New Flags at Presentation N.S., Millstreet…. as well as lots of uplifting songs, music, musings and requests…. We chat about the many images below … plus lots more. Tap on the pictures to enlarge. (S.R.)
[read more …] ““Radio Treasures” Tonight from 9.10 to 11.30pm on CMS”
Day: June 27, 2023
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Eily’s Report – 27th June
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a cairde and welcome to my weekly Report.
The thunder showers abounded and people going into 11.30 Mass on Sunday got a rather unwelcome cleansing as they hurried in. There were many also stories of the heavy rains that fell at 2 am the previous night which seemed to have aroused many from their sleep. The evidence was plain to see next morning judging by all the debris strewn in many places but the warm air prevailed and when the torrents subsided all were free to go again. It’s hard to believe that the longest day is gone and from now on each day will be a little shorter but only a little. There will still be plenty of time to enjoy the out of doors.
I knew that as soon as the Cork Show was over that the new spuds would be out all over. The struggle at Springtime has paid off. The hard work of selecting of the seed, cutting the scealslaanes, the weeding and spraying and finally digging has come to fruition the new cabbage keeping pace with them is a guarantee of a dinner that is as old as time itself. Coupled with a fine piece of bacon of course. New ideas come on stream all the time especially these days when sparing fuel is top of the list. In our days there was what we called a double cooker, simply a saucepan with another one sitting into it. They were regarded as the bees knees. To heat a baby’s bottle, or scramble an egg or make porridge, without burning them. Today they are much more bigger and more modern. We call them steamers and they come in many shapes and sizes, large enough to cook a whole meal ,over just one ring on the gas or electric. The bacon long ago took much longer to cook so it had to be put on long before the cabbage and the adding of same caused the pot to cool down a great deal ,and took ages to come back up to temp. again. Now people put the cabbage in the steamer at the same time as the bacon underneath, and when time comes it can be toppled in with the meat for flavour and the spuds put in the top section and the whole meal cooked together. A friend who is long gone to her eternal reward told us how she could reheat cold boiled potatoes ,even new ones. Put them into asaucepan cover them with cold water and bring them to the boil, then drain them and allow them to steam for a minute or two, and it really works.
