School: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (roll number 14491)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   the name of potatoes brused and mixed with butter. Boxty bread was made with rasped potatoes which were sliced into a crock, luke warm water was poured over and brown sugar added. When was mixed through flour and baked in a bastable. The oatenmeal bread was baked on a griddle.

   Meat was little used, Bacon was imported and local farmers killed there own porkers sometimes. Many old sayings connected with food and eating are "If you eat till your cold you'll live till you old" "God sent meat, but the devil sent cooks" "Too many cooks spool the broth" "Half a loaf is better than no bread" "You can't have your loaf and eat it" "Eaten bread is soon forgotten" "A crooked loaf make a straight stomach."

   It is only within the pass century tea became popular. "Platters" circular

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Mountaine

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath