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dinner consisted of a roasted goose or sometimes a duck. Turkey was usually not served. There was plum pudding, light and dark fruit cake, Scotch cookies, raisin bread — and molasses!- homemade donuts, mixed nuts, oranges and apples. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, featured a fun evening meal. Pancakes were the order of the day — thick, golden ones spread with corn syrup or a sauce made from a combination of Vinegar and molasses. Some of the pancakes had unique surprises. Getting a pancake with a little piece of stick in it meant that you were going to be “poor as wood.” Finding a coin forecast a life of prosperity. Mother’s wedding ring meant that the finder was soon to be married, while the pancake with the button inside predicted that you were