Not Even: Part 3

By LIZ VAN DER LAARSE

'Damn!' Luke slumped into a kitchen chair. 'Mum, where are you? I want some food.'

Sighing, he pulled himself up and reached for the flour in the cupboard. Luke poured the flour into a bowl and mixed it with water until he had a soft dough, the way Nan had done. When the dripping sizzled in the frypan, he dropped in the little bundles of dough. They hissed their steam at him as he turned them over, then scooped them, puffy and golden, on to his plate. He grabbed the salt to shake over the fried bread and picked up the first one lightly with his fingertips, tossing it from hand to hand. It burnt his fingers and his tongue. The second one, he tasted. Yum. Then the next and the next. With the last, he wiped the greasy fat from his plate, then his nose with the back of his hand.

Publisher: Reed

Price: $14.95

Age group: 10 plus years


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