School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe
- Location:
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íte Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0304, Page 045
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- People used have three meals a day in olden times - breakfast, dinner & supper. As a general rule farmers and labourers worked for several hours before breakfast.
They generally had potatoes for breakfast, sometimes they had potatoes for dinner & when potatoes were scarce they had bowls of oaten meal soaked in milk - this was called réabán or ríobún. A great lot of curd was used long ago - a large bastable of sour milk was put on a very slow fire so that the curd would not get tough - the whey used be drained off & given to the pigs, & the curd was put in large bowls and eaten
Salt meat was usually eaten - it was only on very rare occasions they had roast beef or mutton.
Quite a lot of "pound" fish was used. Cabbage and turnips were the most common vegetables.
Currant bread & barm brack was eaten at Christmas & the grown-ups had glasses of punch. They had(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miss H. Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Inch East, Co. Cork
