School: Naomh Breandán (C.), Blennerville (roll number 16899)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   supper.

   Some people used dig the potatoes for the breakfast, dinner and supper, in the morning before breakfast.

   Some people had to eat potatoes for the three meals, and home sour milk, but the rich farmer's used have coffee when the milk was scarce.

   The old people used put a table in the middle of the floor and spread a bag on it, and put the potatoes on it, and wooden mugs of sour milk.
   After every meal the table used be washed and put out side the door.

   They used eat yellow meal bread and wheaten bread. And when they used be short of milk they wet the flour with yeast.

   Very seldom meat used be eaten usually salt meat, because a farmer would kill a pig if he

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Greaney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Blennerville, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs O' Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   82

   Address

   Blennerville, Co. Kerry