School: Fairgreen

Location:
Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 406

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  1. Two or three meals were eaten a day in olden times. The people worked in the morning before taking their breakfast. Each meal consisted of potatoes and oaten porridge. Buttermilk was drunk after every meal. The people sat around the floor in a circle. They had a pot of pototoes in the middle and that's the way they ate their dinner.
    Bacon was eaten instead of beef. This was home-cured. Thre are no accounts of the table been hung up when not is use.
    The different kinds of bread were: bran bread, oaten, wheaten, golden drop and soda. This bread was made in a pot oven or on a griddle on a turf fire. Meat was only eaten on special occasions such as: Easter and Christmas,
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Ebbitt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Erne Hill, Co. Cavan