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School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)

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Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0347

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  1. A Cure for a Cough

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    Put down butter milk in a saucepan and leave it by the fire for one hour. When it is a half a hour down the butter milk burst up and put a half cup of new milk in top of the butter milk and that will bring it down again then get a clean bit of a stick and stir the milk with it. After a while the milk breaks and there is whey and curds left. The curds are taken from the whey and they are let cool. The whey is drank a little hot and the curds are eaten afterwards. Sometimes the curds are not eaten but given to the chickens. The whey is the best thing that will take the cold of you. The curds are not much use for the cold.
    This is another cure for a cold, put down a half saucepan of buttermilk and let it boil then put a plate of eaten meal down in the milk and keep stirring it for five minutes. Then leave it there until it thickens. Then put it in a plate and put sugar on top of it and eat it. It will take away the cold of you.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. cough (~30)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Forde
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    47
    Address
    Killeeneen More, Co. Galway