School: Nicker (C.), Pallas Green (roll number 14232)
- Location:
- Nicker, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Miss Annie Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)and rolled and flattened with the palm of the hand. A cross was cut on the dough to help it to rise. The cake was then put into a hot bastable or pot oven. The oven was covered with a hot lid on which was placed red turf and sometimes red sticks and then hung on a crane over the burning embers.
No fresh meat was eaten. Bacon was used a couple of times in the week.
Fish was never eaten. Potatoes and cabbage were the only vegetables eaten.
Eggs were eaten for breakfast on Easter Sunday morning.
Mugs and pigini were used instead of cups. The pigini were made by the local cooper. People did not eat late at night.
- Collector
- A. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
- Address
- Bunavie, Co. Limerick
