School: Bán-Tír (C.) (roll number 2804)

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1. The Famine (continued)

   

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   morning to 6 o'clock in the evening with two breaks in between - breakfast and dinner.
   Breakfast was at eight o'clock consisting of potatoes and sour skimmed milk. Dinner about 1 o'clock - potatoes and sour skimmed milk. The milk given to the workmen was skimmed twice by the farmers before it was given to the men. They drank out of wooden vessels having one handle called "piggins". Tin saucepans were used as drinking vessels too.
   When potatoes used to get scarce towards the end of the year the men used to get stirabout and sour skimmed milk. The meal was allowed to cook all night so as to have it ready for breakfast next morning. The labouring men worked for about 6d. per day. The farmer employer supplied two meals breakfast and dinner.
   Potato cake called Stampy cake used to be baked on a griddle, something like a frying pan. It used also be baked in an oven. The potatoes for the Stampy Bread used have to be grated first and the grating was done with a homemade tin grater. The grated potatoes were then mixed with yellow meal. Then meal used be sieved first and the fine stuff used then be mixed with the potatoes.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Julia C Deady

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Banteer, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Patrick O Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   76

   Address

   Banteer, Co. Cork