Food in Olden Times

Abstract: Story collected by Kathleen Gallen, a student at Mín Riabhach school (Meenreagh, Co. Donegal) from informant George Gallen.

Original reference: 1097/1/23

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County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Donegal Schools

COLLECTOR
Gallen, Kathleen
Gender
female
INFORMANT
Gallen, George
Gender
male

transcribed at

 

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.

Origin information
Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
Date created:
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 72-73
Volume 1097
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Anton Ó Domhnaill.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Food--Folklore
Food products--Táirgí bia
School location
MeenreaghMeenreaghDonaghmoreRaphoe SouthDonegal
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4526232
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 1097/1/23

Suggested credit
"Food in Olden Times"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4526232>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Anton Ó Domhnaill.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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