School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 212
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- The people in olden times ate four times per day, but at no time did they eat what would be called a meal nowadays. The reason was because they used to rise earlier in the morning than the people do now and work later. The principal food was stirabout and potatoes. The first meal was stirabout and sour milk i.e. milk that was commonly called buttermilk and was usually taken about 7 an after about two hours work. Next meal was oaten bread and new milk or whole milk and that was taken about 9 pm.
The dinner consisted of potatoes and milk. Sometimes they used meat, the meal principally was "American bacon", very seldom they used fresh meat. The last meal consisted of potatoes and milk. Milk was drunk but not very extensively. There was a subsitute for milk called "Sounds" This was made by placing oaten meal and the hulls of oaten meal in an earthenware crock full of water, and left there for about a week. The water was then strained off and drunk
Very few people eat at tables in those days Instead they used a rod basket or skip which they placed on a pot in the middle of the floor, and the household sat around it. Folding tables were more(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sally Liddane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Gda. Keegan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
