School: Tráigh Omna (roll number 13092)
- Location:
- Drishanemore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Dálaigh
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- Informant
- Ellen Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- When people went visiting in the country about sixty years ago instead of tea they were given a mixture of oatmeal and cream or milk. The cream or milk was poured over the raw meal, and this was a great treat for young and old. This was called Ríbiúin. Yellow meal cake was also used and in the Famine Years was the common food of people in this locality.
The Yellow Meal was boiled in fresh buttermilk or with spring water. It was then allowed to cool and made into scones, and fried on a frying-pan.