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School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

Location:
Clontead More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 081

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  2. Food in Olden Times

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    In olden times people had the three usual meals a day, namely breakfast dinner and supper. Among the working classess the people were obliged to commence work at six o'clock, winter and summer, and would have nothing to eat until 9 o'clock when they would have breakfast, this was the first meal of the day.
    The food varied according to the circumstances of the people, but for the ordinary working class people porridge, commonly called "stirabout" which was made from Indian meal and flour mixed was the chief food for the breakfast. For the dinner potatoes and skimmed milk were the staple diet and occasionaly boiled herrings with the water used as gravey were used. The food used for the supper was much the same as
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Madge Murphy
    Gender
    Female