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 232
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- The food eaten now is different from the food eaten long ago. The people used to eat three times a day. The breakfast, dinner and supper. The breakfast consisted of porridge, The dinner consisted mostly of potatoes and butter-milk. The dinner was served on a wide shallow basket sitting on a pot in the centre of the floor. Sometimes they had a pan in the middle of the basket with cabbage and bacon on it. The supper cane next. It consisted of porridge and milk. The milk was drank out of wooden cups called noggins. Some of these cups had two handles. Long ago people often worked in the morning before they at their breakfast, they would get oaten bread and sweet milk. The oaten bread was made with warm water, oaten meal and salt.
- Collector
- Peter Lynch
- Gender
- Male
