School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- Location:
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: F. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 146
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- The people used to have three meals every day. The meals were the breakfast the dinner and the supper
The breakfast consisted of a saucepan of oaten stirabout and a quarter of oaten cake and a saucepan of butter milk. The dinner consisted of potatoes and peper and salt mixed together was called hatico, and a saucepan of buttermilk. The supper consisted of a quarter of oaten cake ad a saucepan of newmilk. When tea came out first they used to make a saucepan of it and strain the tea out of it and eat the tea leaves. This was about seventy years ago. Long ago saucepans and noggins were used insted of cups.
- Collector
- Pauline Gerety
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Informant
- James Gerety
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
