School: Lacken (B.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13826)
- Location:
- Lacken, Co. Clare
- Teacher: M. Ó Maonaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0602, Page 113
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- The food in olden times was very rough but still it was very healthy and the people in olden times usually lived a long time.
They used usually have three meals in the day, The "bruckest" as it was called, the dinner, and the supper,
The "bruckest" usually consisted of "praties" salt butter-milk and sometimes butter, The buttermilk was kept in a timber vessel called a pigin, and was left in the centre of the table so that everyone could take a "sup", At certain times of the year the "bruckest" was of "yalla male" stirabout, When a crowd would be working on the land a tub of stirabout would be prepared, and then someone would put it on his head and carry it out to them, with the spoons standing about in a ring on the thick stirabout, Then everyone would sit about and eat away, The person was usually called in from his work to eat the "bruckest".
They used have praties and fish for dinner, or sometimes meat, Beef was more commonly used than bacon,
For the supper they used have praties(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirtín Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lack East, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mary Cotter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lack East, Co. Clare
