School: Meath Hill (roll number 7166)

Location:
Meath Hill, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Patrick J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 231

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 231

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  1. The people used to eat three meals a day breakfast, dinner and supper. They would have stirabout for the breakfast potatoes for the dinner and bread and sweet milk for the supper and when the bread would be scarce they would have potatoes and butter milk for the supper. They would have the potatoes spread on a basket. The basket was put on a pot and the pan was put in the middle of the basket and all sat round the basket and ate as much as they wanted. The vessels that people used before cups were known, were wooden vessels. Some of them had two handles and more of them had only one handle. The bread the people used to eat was oaten bread and rye bread. It was the custom for the people to eat as much eggs as they were able on Easter Sunday. The young people used to go out into a field and bring eggs and tea with them. They would boil the eggs in a saucepan and eat them. The people used to have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christopher Mc Guire
    Gender
    Male