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1. Food in Olden Days

   

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   The people had three meals a day in oldent times and these were breakfast, dinner, and supper. The breakfast was eaten at eight o'clock, dinner was eaten at one, and supper at seven. People were often out in the field waiting for daylight to appear to start work, before having food.
   The breakfast consisted of porridge, the dinner of potatoes and milk, and the supper consisted of the same food, as the dinner. They very poor class ate potatoes at every meal. Buttermilk was drunk at every meal. People did not sit round the table in the centre of the floor, but sat round the potato basket or around a bag with potatoes on it in some houses they had a table. When not in use the table was hung up on the wall, if the room were small, so as to give more liberty.
   Oat meal bread was eaten. This was made by adding warm water to the oatmeal, to which a pinch of salt was added then this was kneaded and rolled out and baked before a fire.
   The old people say that they never tasted meat when they were young . An old man says that in his young days, they had a servant boy hired for forty years, and that the only

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