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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   This food was made from a little oatmeal boiled on water and mixed with plenty of vegetables and it was really vegetable soup in the matter of food but long ago the people would call it brathan. Oat-meal bread was the only bread used long ago. One advantage that the people had in food was that they would always have a whole side of bacon in the house which they would get for fourpence per lb.
   After some time tea came into vogue but would not be used often as the people thought it was too dear to buy.

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   

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   This food was made from a little oatmeal boiled on water and mixed with plenty of vegetables and it was really vegetable soup in the matter of food but long ago the people would call it braion. Oatmeal bread was the only bread used long ago. One advantage that the people had in food was that they would always have a whole side of bacon in the house which they would get for fourpence per lb.
   After some time tea came into vogue but would not be used often as the people thought it was too dear to buy.
   The rule long ago was that there were three meals a day and there were some who could not afford to get that much and any person who got that much was considered very lucky. Those meals were breakfast, dinner and supper. The people used to do a good deal of work in the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mairead Mac Nally

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cormoy, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Owen Mac Nally

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cormoy, Co. Monaghan