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   3. The men usually went out in the fields for an hour before their breakfast. The breakfast usually consisted of potatoes and milk, potato cakes or oaten bread. The dinner consisted of potatoes and buttermilk and the supper also consisted of potatoes and buttermilk and sometimes stir about if the people could afford oaten meal. Milk was not used by all people as most of them could not afford to keep a cow and they used “sour cheerins(?)” instead. The table was always by the wall. There were four kinds of bread – Indian bread made from Indian meal, salt and water or “sour cheerins(?)”. Oaten bread made with water and oatmeal. Rye bread was made with raw potatoes oaten meal and water. Very little meat was eaten only by the people who were rich and even they ate bacon mostly. Fish was eaten often because it was cheap at the time. Very little vegetables were eaten. People did not eat late at night. On November the first “cally(?)” was eaten, and on Easter Sunday eggs were eaten. Tea was first used about a hundred years ago.

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jim Miskell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doon Lower, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Lily Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Martin Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Patrick Sweeney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Fohanagh, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Loughlin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Miskell

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Doon Lower, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Kenny

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male