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School: Hospital Convent (roll number 13898)

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Hospital, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Sr. Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0515, Page 088

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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    Long ago people in this country were able to eat great quantities of plain food. It was the usual thing for country people to be out of bed before daybreak and go to work at the first light of the day, and very often it happened they would be working four hours before the first meal of the day would be eaten.
    Breakfast consisted of penty porridge and new milk. Dinner would be consumed at noon and great quantities of potatoes, and home skim milk with some butter would be the meal. At all meals the members of each household, would sit around at a table. Thursday
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marie O' Meara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bartoose, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr James O' Brien
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bartoose, Co. Tipperary