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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 230

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    There is a joke connected with the time tea was first introduced into this parish - Barndonagh. There was a station in a certain Mary Doherty's house and, Mary, wishing to make the priest some tea, but not knowing how to make it, thought she would make it a way of her own. When the kettle was boiling she poured the water into the teapot and added two spoonfulls of tea. When the tea had "drawn" she fetched a strainer and strained out the liquid and threw it away. Then she put the tea-leaves on a saucer and mixed two tea-spoonfulls of sugar with it. When she set this in front of the priest, he at once asked what was this, and she replied "Pleasing your riverence but that's the tae" "The tea? the priest incredulously asked, " but where's the liquid? "Och," said Mary, "I just threw it out
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    “When people in olden times were having their tea, they just pulled a creel out into the middle of the floor and set it at a slanting angle by putting on turf under one side of it.”

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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary B. Mac Donough
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Cecelia Canny
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Carndonagh, Co. Donegal