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School: Rathdrum (B)

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Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
S. Ó Muirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 034

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 034

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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    The people ate three meals a day in this district in olden times, their breakfast, dinner and supper.
    For breakfast they had oaten meal porridge and milk. For dinner they had buttermilk and poraroes. For supper they had milk and brown bread and sometimes stirabout.
    The farmers used to go out to work for three hours every morning before their breakfast.
    When tea came into the district, the people threw away the water when they had boiled it, and put butter on the tea leaves and eat them.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mr P. Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow