School: Monart (roll number 15741)
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- Monart East, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Elionóir, Bean Úi Fhuidhleach
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- 148Food in Olden Times.The people used to eat barley loaves and oatmeal loaves. They often ate turnips stirabout and potato cakes. The place where the food was cooked was called an oven.Name. Victor Gainfort.
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- Victor Gainfort
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- In olden times people used to make barley bread. In the time of the world war there was a dark indigestable kind of bread made. There was a mixture of barley wheat and peas in it. A lot of old people said it nearly killed them. It was a great treat to get a piece of white bread.
In olden days wheat was a very bad crop. The bread made from it was black in colour. The people had not proper machinery to grind it so it was coarse and that was why it was so hard on the Irish people when the potato crop failed. They used to make potato cakes when(continues on next page)
