School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society) (roll number 4013)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   Meat was not eaten often those that could afford a small piece of American bacon twice a week were considered lucky.
   Fish was always used on St Patrick's Day and generally throughout lent.
   The only vegetables used were potatoes, cabbage, and turnips.
   Young families generally ate potatoes and milk the last thing before retiring to bed.
   At certain times potatoes were cooked in different way to suit the occasion but they were always boiled and peeled and baked with pepper and salt and onions and plenty of butter for November night.
   It was then called colcannon. No man or woman would taste any food till after twelve o clock on the three black fast days of lent. Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Spy Wednesday and worked the same as if they had eaten their breakfast.
   The whole family young and old

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Julia Gormley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Loughatorick, Co. Galway