School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 162
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- Long ago people ate three meals a day, their breakfast dinner and their supper and no tea.
They used to eat oaten meal porridge for their breakfast and potatoes and salt and milk to their dinner.
For their supper they used to eat more potatoes or sometimes they used to have a boxty cake.
At dinner time or supper time they used to put the potatoes into a basket and put it on a chair or stool and sit around and peel the potatoes with their thumb nail.
Long ago the children used to bring oaten bread to school.
People used to make a supper called sowens that is made from mill seeds this is put into a tub and water put on it some people put a couple of spoonfulls of oaten meal in it, you leave this for a couple of days then you strain this through a linen cloth then you can boil the liquid on the fire you are to keep stirring it the one way(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Smith
- Gender
- Male
