School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)
- Location:
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 213
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- Potatoes were scarce long ago but the people generally took them three times a day. They would boil the potatoes and when they were done they were drained on a potato basket and set in the middle of the floor and the whole family would sit round the basket and eat the potatoes.
They took either buttermilk or herring along with the potatoes and where there was a large family the herring had to do two people.
Whenever the potatoes were finished the people had to take indian porridge three times a day. It was seldom that they got tea.
The bread that they would get to the tea was indian pancake and potato cake mixed with oat meal. At Hallowe'en they would get boxty. This was made with grated raw potatoes and mashed boiled potatoes. Then you mix all together and bake it into a cake and put it in the oven. At Christmas they would generally make a potato pudding and it was made with boiled potatoes and flour mixed through them. This would be put in an oven placed at the side of the fire, turf coals were put on the top of the lid and baked for three hours.
- Collector
- Myrtle Gillanders
- Gender
- Female
