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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   Long ago people ate three meals a day. They nearly always ate potatoes and drank buttermilk at their meals. Some people went out to work at about seven o' clock for; and came in at eight o' clock for their breakfast. Buttermilk was the principal drink. Some of the people warmed the buttermilk and drank it. They also roasted potatoes in the fields and ate them. The potatoes were covered with clay and a fire of dry potato stalks was lighted over them. The hot clay cooked the potatoes. They also ate a lot of fish. Long ago people sat round a table in the middle of the kitchen floor at their meals. If their there was not enough room for all the people at one table there was another table placed near the fire. Long ago there was a hook in the middle of the table and when the people had their meals eaten they put a rope through the hook and tied it to the ceiling of a special place made for it.
   The principal bread was homemade wheaten bread. Mutton was the commonest meal eaten long ago. The principal dinner

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