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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 071

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    Long ago there were only three meals in the day. The breakfast dinner and supper. They used to eat porridge for their breakfast, and they used to eat potatoes and salt for their dinner, when they had the potatoes boiled for the dinner they would emty out the potatoes in a basket and put salt in the middle of the potatoes and they would peel the potatoes with their thumb and dipp the potatoes into the salt and eat them. And they used to eat potatoes for their supper. The only bread they had was boxty and oten-bread and potato-bread.
    They only got tea once a week that was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Evelyn Mc Clelland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr John Mc Clelland
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiffagh, Co. Cavan