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School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)

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Granard, Co. Longford
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Sr. Conception
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    Food in Olden Times
    1st June, 1938.
    In olden times the people took three meals a day - breakfast, dinner and supper. For their breakfast they took oaten porridge and buttermilk, they took potatoes, salt and buttermilk at their dinner, and for their evening meal or supper they ate oaten bread and had new or fresh milk or buttermilk.
    When new milk was
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Brigid Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    42
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford