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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 183

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    people. Beef, mutton and pork were abundant, but probably the poorer people did not have meat very often.
    Salmon was a popular food. Apparently, our lakes and rivers contained even more salmon hundreds of years ago than they do nowadays. People had no sugar in those days but they made up for this by using honey.
    About a hundred years ago tea was first used in the country. The meal from which they made bread was ground by local millers. The oaten-meal-cake was generally baked standing upwards in front of the fire, supported by a flag.
    The people were
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Treanfohanaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mark Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kinaff, Co. Mayo