Scoil: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (uimhir rolla 14491)

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   See the potatoes steaming hot on a sack, spread on the floor. See the scrubbed wooden noggins with their shining hoops full to the brim with buttermilk or skim milk. The family kneeling round using thumbnails to peel the "steaming spuds." Maybe there is a red or salted herring too. What appetites with no custard or jelly for dessert. No, these sons of the soil didn't gorge, yet they kept the Faith alive in the dark penal days when our country was down trodden with Cromwellians Soldiers and Hessians.

   Meal was an important diet too. Oatenbread as hard as a rock spread with butter. What teeth they mush have had them days. Flummery was made from strained water of oatenmeal. The meal was let sour after and mixed with flour. It was called stampy bread. "Chompee" was

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