School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   Potatoes and milk were used for supper with oat meal occasionally. People usually ate porridge late at night. In the years of the famine the potatoe crop failed and the people had to use Indian meal boiled. This was commonly called stir-a-bout. Tea was very little used until about eighty years ago.
   When people used to go to the lime kiln for lime, they used to take raw potatoes in the cart, and when returning they used to put the raw potatoes into the lime and cover them with some wet grass, and they used to cook beautifully in this way. The man sitting on the cart used to eat them on his way home.
   Before cups became common timber porringers and later bowls or basins were used. Bread used be made with decayed potatoes and barley meal. It was called "[?]stampy ciste". In later years whole meal wheat was used for making

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Crissie Lyons

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mr J. O' Dwyer

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 80

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Coolacullig, Co. Cork