Volume: CBÉ 0190

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   “This is the conclusion of what I sent in, in my last book. It concerns the work that goes on in a farmhouse kitchen.”

   

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   start working again for the men will be expecting their tea. Two or three kettles are boiled on the big kitchen fire, and then the tea is put to draw in two or three big tea pots. The bread is cut into slices and placed on big dishes on the tables. Some farmer's wifes butter the bread but others leave the butter on the table. The men then come in and partake of their tea, but do not spend much time over it, as the day is going and there may be plenty of work to be done before night. There is another big wash up now of the things, and the tables are again laid for the supper. The girls do their evenings work, pigs, cows calves fowl and all must be attended to before the men come in to their supper. Meanwhile the

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Bean Uí Bhuitléir