School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)

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1. Local Food Long Ago

   

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   Long ago the people got four or five meals each day. The food was far stronger than the present food.

   These meals consisted of porridge for their breakfast with a mixture of butter-milk and skim-milk. They had tea and oaten bread at 10 o clock; for dinner they had tea and bread also. They had milk at 3 o clock and their supper was of potatoes and sheeps' milk. Still in this locality sheeps' milk is used for making pap : this is made like porridge of Indian meal only pap is not as thick. It is very nourishing

   At night going to bed they used milk and oaten bread.

   The bread was made either of barley or oats.

   When they are going to eat a meal like potatoes they move the table to the middle of the floor.

   They did not eat much meat long ago
   They used a lot of fowl, fish, and pork, and some of them had their own bacon.
   The vegetables they used were cabbage turnips and onions.

   The people used a lot of eggs for Easter because they had very little of anything else at

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nellie Rashford

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballybrennan, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mrs P. Cosgrave

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   47

   Address

   Ballybrennan, Co. Wexford