School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh

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   There is a joke connected with the time tea was first introduced into this parish - Barndonagh. There was a station in a certain Mary Doherty's house and, Mary, wishing to make the priest some tea, but not knowing how to make it, thought she would make it a way of her own. When the kettle was boiling she poured the water into the teapot and added two spoonfulls of tea. When the tea had "drawn" she fetched a strainer and strained out the liquid and threw it away. Then she put the tea-leaves on a saucer and mixed two tea-spoonfulls of sugar with it. When she set this in front of the priest, he at once asked what was this, and she replied "Pleasing your riverence but that's the tae" "The tea? the priest incredulously asked, " but where's the liquid? "Och," said Mary, "I just threw it out

   

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   “When people in olden times were having their tea, they just pulled a creel out into the middle of the floor and set it at a slanting angle by putting on turf under one side of it.”

   

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   When people in olden times were having their tea, they just pulled a creel out into the middle of the floor and set it at a slanting angle by putting on turf under one side of it. They made no kind of bread unless oaten and sometimes they made this, when

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary B. Mac Donough

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Cecelia Canny

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   73

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal