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  2. Food in Olden Times

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    The people about a hundred years ago ate three meals a day. The breakfast consisted of oten porridge and sweet milk. Other times the used indian or wheaten porridge.
    When these were not used they ate a smoked herring bought cheaply and wheaten or oten bread and cow's milk.
    The dinner consisted of some cabbage cooked on American bacon.
    Othertimes they ate round bascet of potatoes each
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gallonreagh, Co. Cavan