Abstract: Story collected by Kathleen Gallen, a student at Mín Riabhach school (Meenreagh, Co. Donegal) from informant George Gallen.
Original reference: 1097/1/23
School Mín Riabhach [Vol. 1097, Chapter 0001]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Donegal Schools
Food in Olden Times [duchas:4413332]
The old people used to eat three meals every day. These meals were their breakfast their dinner and their supper. They ate these meals in the morning at dinner-time and at night. The people used to work in the morning before breakfast. They ate potatoes and butter-milk to their breakfast. They ate oat-bread and sweet-milk to their dinner, and they ate potatoes to their supper. The people used to drink their milk. Long ago the people had no tables they ate their food from the bottom of baskets. They used to eat bred made from oat-meal. They also used to draw blood from the cattle and leave it until it got hard, then they cut it and ate it also. The people used to eat fish long ago but they ate no vegetable because they had none. They did not eat after six o' clock.
Food in Olden Times [duchas:4413333]
The people of olden times used to have a feast on Hallow Eve night. They used to make tea at this feast. It was the time of famine that the people first drank tea. They did not know how to make tea; some of them mixed butter with tea leaves and at them. The people used to eat their food out of noggins before cups were found. The old people used to gather all the eggs which they got during Lent, and they ate them all on Easter-Sunday. They would not eat eggs during Lent.
Original reference: 1097/1/23
Food in Olden Times
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