School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)

Location:
Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Elizabeth Benson
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    seats. With their nails they peeled their potatoes as knives were scarce. Sometimes they had a herring for dinner. They (fired) fried the herring on the pan and spilt water on it, and thy drank this with spoons with their potatoes.
    Another thing they did was they used to get a slice of meat and redden on the tongs and catch the slice of meat and take the juice out of it. They then dipped their potatoes in it.
    For their supper they sometimes made an oat cake. This cake was made from oatenmeal and a grain of sugar and water. It was baked on a grid iron before his fire and it was as hard as a rock. They ate this with plenty of good fresh homemade butter. The children any of them that went to school had a piece of oaten cake and a piece of butter in their pocket for lunch.
    The people had good teeth
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English