School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)

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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   People in olden times ate two meals in the day. They usually partook of these meals in the morning and in the evening.
   Potatoes and sour milk were the two foods most commonly used. In the morning before partaking of any meal the people worked, such as milking cows and feeding horses. Nowadys the same work is done before breakfast.

   Tea was regareded as a luxury in olden times and it was never used except at Christmas, and white bread was also never eaten but at Christmas. The cakes most commonly eaten in former days were made of potatoes. The potatoes were grated and strained and some flour was mixed with them. The mixture was then baked in a griddle which had no cover, but placed on the coals

   Meat was seldom eaten, the most common being salted pork. Fish was roasted by placing the tongs on the coals and laying the fish across it. It is a very old custom to eat more than one egg on Easter Sunday morning, to

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Susannah Jane Pyburn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dunbeacon, Co. Cork

   Informant

   John Pyburn

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dunbeacon, Co. Cork