School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)

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   The dough was then made into cakes in which salt was used and then baked on a griddle.
   The cake was solid and dark in colour when it was baked.
   Griddle Bread
   Griddle bread was made by mixing equal quantities of oatmeal and flour with a little salt and soda. This was mixed with milk and baked on a griddle.

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   

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   In olden times people only ate three meals a day. For their breakfast they ate porridge, for their dinner potatoes, which they ate again at night. They worked some hours in the morning before eating anything. Milk was drunk because they had no tea as they have nowadays. Sometimes they mixed water and oatmeal together and made a very wholesome drink. Sometimes they eat round the table and at other times they sat round a "scib" of potatoes which was placed on the floor. Oaten-bread was eaten. Meat was not eaten. There were special foods eaten on certain feastdays such as "Easter Sunday" "St Martins

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Croghan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bookalagh, Co. Galway