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   In olden times people had three meals a day. They had porridge and sour milk for breakfast and they had potatoes and sour milk for dinner and for supper they had porridge again.
   The table was a little bit out from the walls and the people sat around it when they were eating.
   The bread eaten was made of crushed oats. Oats were crushed and mixed with sour milk and bread soda and the dough was baked on a griddle.
   Meat was eaten only on Christmas Day. The meat was salted. Fish and vegetables were eaten often. People always ate a lot of eggs on Easter Sunday.
   Before cups were common timber 'peggens' were used.

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   

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   Long ago people had meals three times a day. In the morning the people had stirabout and sour milk for breakfast. At twelve o'clock they had potatoes and fish for their dinner. In the evening a big dish of oaten meal was placed on the middle of the table.

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Patrick Mac Carthy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   62

   Address

   Glennaglogh, Co. Waterford