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Roxee’s Home Cooked Recipes

Pudding:
POUDING CHÔUMEUR
1 cup maple syrup POUDING CHÔUMEUR
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 cup boiling water
Instructions:
Preheat oven 350 degrees.
By Roxanne Prevost
In a bowl, mix flour and baking
powder together.
Spring is in the air! Cooler nights
In a separate bowl, cream the butter
and nice days make for a great and sugar together.
maple syrup season. Maple syrup is
made to be used for a lot of recipes, Alternate milk and sugar into the
flour mixture. Set aside.
including this cake. Hope you try it. Grease an 8x8” glass pan. Pour
Enjoy!
cake mixture into the pan. Next,
Cake: in a bowl, add maple syrup, brown
1 1/2 cups flour sugar, butter and water. Microwave
1 tsp baking powder for 2 minutes enough to melt the Photo Submitted
1/4 cup butter brown sugar. Pour it over the cake
1 cup sugar using a large spoon, trying not to or until a toothpick comes out clean. combination!
1 large egg make holes in the cake. The cake on top and the sweet Serve the dessert with vanilla ice
1 cup milk Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes syrup on the bottom are a magical cream. Enjoy!

Continued from page 33 the big brawl in the movie came from. Alabama. The team kept the same reason to be sent down - I asked and
was the team that the hockey movie Some of the game scenes from the jerseys with the bull logo on the front he wouldn’t say, only that I would
Slapshot was based on. Jack Carlson movie is actual game footage from and were renamed the Birmingham be keeping my higher WHA salary. I
had been called up to the Edmonton that series. The up-close scenes were Bulls. Mario spent part of that was called up a few times during the
Oilers just prior to shooting, so actors, but the further away scenes summer working as a goalie coach season but that was it.”
another Jets enforcer, Dave Hanson, were us. They were able to change at Allan Stanley’s Beehive Hockey With his contract now expired,
took his place and they were called the names on the sweaters, and the School in Bobcaygeon, at a complex Norm Baril spoke with Punch
the Hanson Brothers in the movie. “It Presidents name was somehow put which included a golf course. This Imlach and got Mario a shot with
was late March, early April of 1976,” on our green Norsemen jerseys, and connection was made by Toro’s head the Buffalo Sabres. “I was only
Mario recalled. “Paul Newman the Chiefs name was put on the Jets coach Bobby Baun, who had been there about two months, just for the
was there and some of the filming jerseys.” Stanley’s defense partner with the training camp and a little bit. My
was being done at the Johnstown The final game was never played Maple Leafs. Mario didn’t get the first exhibition game was against the
Memorial Center. I didn’t know because the Norseman team owner, opportunity to go to Birmingham. “I Montreal Canadiens at the Forum,
about it at the time, but earlier in Dr Turecki, a Buffalo doctor, pulled was on the golf course, just coming where they beat us 6-3. They had a
the season, Greg Neeld, a Norseman the team out and forfeited the game off the 9th hole, and Allan Stanley powerhouse team and had just won
defenseman, had put a beating on and the series. “I’d never seen tells me that I have a phone call. It the Stanley Cup with Ken Dryden in
one of the Carlson brothers. We were anything like it,” Mario stated, “The was Gilles Leger telling me that net, Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt, Yvan
going into the 5th and final playoff riot squad was there. They had big I had been traded, along with Jim Cournoyer, Larry Robinson, Serge
game, tied 2-2 in a five-game series. German Shepherds to keep the crowd Dorey, to the Quebec Nordiques. Savard, Rejean Houle. I think they
We were skating around in the back so we could get on our bus. They had been looking for a goalie only lost about 10 games that year.
warm-up and the 3 Carlson brothers After getting used to flying to the big to backup Richard Brodeur. I played Punch Imlach told me that I was
timed it so they could all jump Neeld WHA cities all year, this mess didn’t through the exhibition games, and being sent to Saginaw Gears farm
at center ice. It turned into about a leave me with a very good feeling all went well, then the day before team, but there was potential that I
half-hour brawl. I was friends with about the minors.” we got started, GM Maurice Fillion would be back up. I really didn’t
the Jets goalie, Ron Docken, so we The Toros ceased operations in told me that I was being sent to the want to go back to the minors, so I
just held onto each other and had a Nordiques farm team in Lewiston,
conversation. That incident is where Toronto, re-locating to Birmingham, Maine. There was no apparent Continued on page 42