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School: Naomh Ceitheach, Runnamoat (roll number 8499)

Location:
Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Gráinne, Bean Uí Neachtain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0262, Page 107

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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    In olden times meals were not studied in the same way as they are to -day. Scarcely any variety existed in them save on special occasions as Xmas, Easter & Weddings.
    Potatoes and butter-milk was the diet generally used and those three times a day.
    The common custom in this district was to pull the table out to the centre of the floor & the household seated themselves around it. In Lent salt herrings were used at dinner. The herring was roasted on a grid iron, placed in a dish and set floating in hot water.
    The members then peeled their potatoes and all dipped in the dish. Plates were not used.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Keegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    William Keegan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Roscommon