School: Newtownmount Kennedy
- Location:
- Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Ida Hutchinson
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 165
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- In olden times people had only two meals each day. They were breakfast and supper and were eaten about eight o'clock in the morning and late at night. People used to work for about two hours before their breakfast. The breakfast consisted of oatenmeal porridge or stir-a-bout and butter milk, and the supper consisted of potatoes and buttermilk. New milk was also drunk. The table was placed beside the wall.
Wheaten bread was eaten and was made in the same was as it is now. Meat was used on Sundays and was generally bacon. Salt herrings were also eaten. Vegetables were not used "boxty" which is now gone out of fashion. Certain food was eaten on special occasions such as pancakes, colcannon on Shrove Tuesday and fowl on Christmas Day.
