School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)

Location:
Skerries, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
T. Mc Namee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 166

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    Food in the Olden Times.
    Skerries, Co. Dublin.
    In olden times people had three meals a day, which consisted of buttermilk and meal bread for the breakfast. Some people in olden times worked before breakfast. For dinner they would have potatoes, fresh ray or dried fish. In olden times people used shell cocoa instead. For their third meal the old people had shell cocoa and meal bread. Bacon was mostly long ago and fresh meat was hardly ever eaten. Beef was generally eaten in olden times. The poor people only ate beef at Christmas
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Desmond Potter
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    The Harbour, Co. Dublin