School: Drom an Tacair (roll number 9411)
- Location:
- Dromthacker, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Mhic Talbóid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0441, Page 362
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- In olden times people lived on three meals a day: breakfast, dinner and supper. They worked a few hours before breakfast and then had potatoes and sour milk for breakfast, if they got bread it was considered a great treat.
For dinner potatoes were the chief food, and perhaps a little meat or fish and for supper potatoes or yellow meal gruel. Sour milk was the only milk drank in bygone days. Yellow meal bread made in squares on a griddle, was the bread of that time. Tea was never heard of: wooden cups were used for drinking purposes.
- Collector
- Áine Ní Cheallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Ballybrannagh, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Áine Talbot
- Gender
- Female
