Usually held in the fall of the year, a Scoff is a traditional Newfoundland meal consisting of corned beef and cabbage or salt spare ribs and cabbage. In the fall when fresh vegetables are plentiful, friends would gather at one house or community hall to cook a scoff.
Friends would contribute to the cooking pot of salt beef, salt ribs or salt pork with potatoes, turnips, carrots and cabbage. While the scoff was cooking friends would socialize with a game of cards.
A typical dinner involved in a scoff is a "jigs dinner". It's a feast of salt beef and boiled vegetables, and a true Newfoundland and Labrador culinary tradition. It's usually served with pease pudding-yellow spilt peas boiled to a paste in a linen sack. It's generally available at least one day a week in local eating establishments. Note: If the potatoes look a little blue, it's because they are; the blue potato is a delicious variety common to Newfoundland and Labrador.
