School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- The principal food of the ancient Irish consisted chiefly of potatoes and oat-meal porridge. On Sundays and feast days they eat bread with potatoes mixed through the flour, and they called it "Stumpy cake" They are baked the cake on a griddle and later on a pot oven. They grew their own wheat and ground it between two large stones called "Querns".They made their own butter in a churn barrel. The barrel was attached to a large stool and worked by a handle until the cream cracked and little lumps of butter were formed. They drank the butter milk with the potatoes. The upper class drank tea once a week. It cost 20/' per lb and it was counted as a great novelty. They made starch from the potatoes.The fire was made of turf and withered heath in the Summer. For the people that lived near the mountains it was a(continues on next page)