School: Kiffa

Location:
Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 070

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 070

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  1. They ate three meals in the day, breakfast, dinner and supper.
    For breakfast they ate oaten and indian meal porridge and they ate it out of noggins and with wooden spoons.
    For their dinner the people would have potatoes and salt and a drink of buttermilk and sometimes they would buy a fish and the father and mother would divide the fish between them and the children would point the potato at the fish and this was called potatoes point.
    With the first milking of a newly calved cow they used to make "beesting" pancakes. Some people used to boil the "beesting" milk and eat the curds with either salt or sugar.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Violet Tweedie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Duffcastle, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Tweedie
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Duffcastle, Co. Cavan