Sounds like my grandmother's Rockies. Once they got cold they would literally bounce. After school I'd go across the road to Pop & Nan's foe a 'piece' - glass of milk and a couple of ginger nuts. Never could work out why she called it a 'piece'. Then a few years ago I found out it was a Scottish term. Nan's mother came from Comrie in Perthshire, her father from Wales.
Nan was a terrible cook and freely admitted it - she HATED cooking. She was ahead of her time though, in 1928 she went back to work as a bookkeeper in the large local general store in country Victoria where Pop was a Draper, and employed a daily housekeeper who also cooked the midday meal. In those days it was unheard of for a married woman to work, as it implied the husband was a drunkard/gambler and incapable of supporting his family. There was no question about his ability to support his family, so there was no need for her to work; it's just that she preferred that type of work to housework and cooking. Helen.
When I read Jean's reference to stottie cakes, I wondered, 'Do they bounce?' because stott is also the NE Scotland (all Scotland?) word meaning bounce. We also refer to stottin' rain and stottin' china. Think about them :-) Patricia in Wales
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