School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: T. Mc Namee
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Food in the Olden Times.
Skerries, Co. Dublin. In olden times people had three meals a day, which consisted of buttermilk and meal bread for the breakfast. Some people in olden times worked before breakfast. For dinner they would have potatoes, fresh ray or dried fish. In olden times people used shell cocoa instead. For their third meal the old people had shell cocoa and meal bread. Bacon was mostly long ago and fresh meat was hardly ever eaten. Beef was generally eaten in olden times. The poor people only ate beef at Christmas(continues on next page)- Collector
- Desmond Potter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- The Harbour, Co. Dublin