School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)

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1. The Food of the Olden Times (continued)

   

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   on the plate. When the butter was melted cold milk was put into the plate and salt and the potatoes were peeled into the plate. Sometimes oat-meal stirabout was eaten at this meal but more often Indian-meal stirabout.
   Potatoes were also eaten at dinner time. They were usually eaten with a kind of porridge called bruchán which was water and oat-meal and
   salt and pepper and onions boiled together. They used to say that this was very healthy food. For the dinner the potatoes were also eaten with a herring or two because the people used to get a salted herring at Cresham's shop for one egg. The small children used not be
   allowed to eat with their father or mother at the table but they used to have a skib made of rods and they would place that in the middle
   of the floor on a chair and all the children would kneel down around it and eat their dinner. Cabbage and turnips were also eaten but
   very seldom except on Special days such as Christmas Day.
   At tea time the meal consisted of boxty cake and oatmeal bread with milk or "sweeden" or prásán. Boxty cake was made out of potatoes and salt and sometimes a pickled

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Neenan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cortoon, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Patrick Neenan

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cortoon, Co. Galway