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School: Dromcollchoille (B.)

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    The food in olden times consisted of, thick milk and a yellow meal cake, for breakfast. Potatoes and sour-milk, for dinner. For supper, they used to fill a big pot with water, and place it on the fire. When the water used to be boiling, they used to pour yellow meal into it, and stir it with a stick, until it used to get into thick gruel. Then each one of the family, used to get a plate of that for his supper. They made the meal-cake, by mixing boiled potatoes with yellow meal, and wetting it with water.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mundellihy, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Timothy Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Mundellihy, Co. Limerick