School: Newcastle
- Location:
- An Caisleán Nua, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Fhotharta
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- In olden times people had two meals a day. They were breakfast and supper and were eaten about eight o' clock in the morning and late at night. People used to work for about two hours before their breakfast. The breakfast consisted of oatenmeal porridge or stir-a-bout and butter-milk and the supper consisted of potatoes and butter-milk. New milk was also drunk. The table was placed beside the wall.
Wheaten bread was eaten and was eaten and was made in the same way as it is now. Meat was used on Sundays and was generally bacon. Salt herrings were also eaten. Vegetables were not used but "boxty" which is now more or less gone out of fashion. People ate late at night.
Certain food was eaten on special occasions such as pancakes colcannon on Shrove Tuesday and fowl on Christmas Day.
It is not known when tea was first used in the district. Noggins were used before cups became common.
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