School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 064
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- Long ago the people were not as well fed as they are now, nor did they get as sweet food but their food was far more healthy than ours. They only ate three meals a day, breakfast, dinner and supper. Their principal food was porridge to their breakfast, potatoes to their dinner and porridge to their supper.
Sometimes they took "sowens" to their supper, and when the potatoes got scarce they took potato bread or oaten bread, with a drop of goat's milk to their dinners. They always took goat's milk to their supper.
There were two cakes of oaten bread made in every house each day. A dish of oat meal is got and sugar and butter is mixed with it. It is then wet with water and rolled out level on the table with a pot-stick, and made round. It is then set on the griddle beside the fire, and each side is turned(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patsy Meehan
- Address
- Inishammon, Co. Monaghan
