School: St Mary's, Bridge-End
- Location:
- Bridge End, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Mhic Uidhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 192
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- Bread made in olden times
They made oat-bread long ago and potato cake and other bread too. Some people had a little wheat bread. It was the well off people that had wheaten bread.
Was flour from wheat, corn, or oats
They made flour from wheat and they cushed it themselves.
How many meals per day did the people have in olden times
They had three good meals.
What were they
In the morning they put about nine or ten eggs in boiling milk and then they put it out in cups and drank it with oat-bread and butter.
At what time were they eaten
One in the morning and at twelve o clock and in the evening when the mean came home from their work.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Porter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownamaddy, Co. Donegal
