School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

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   legged wooden frame in front of a well kindles fire to bake. This bred was very nice and good and used with butter and milk and everybody brought some of it in their pockets when going a journey .
   There was another food which was principally eaten between the foods called swodeen .It was made by mixing meal and milk together . Everybody that could afford to keep a milk cow make their own butte with the dash churn.The butter was used at all meals. Tea was entirely unknown have then and flour was very little used . Cabbage dressed with butter was frequently used for dinner.
   Tables were very scarce then and when there was a large young family the potaoes were put in to (upturned ) slab and left on an upturned cleeve on the middle of the floor and whatever was eaten with the potatoes was put noggin and placed in the middle of the scib and all at the meal took a share.Knives and forks were very scarce then . Another way the potatoes was used was to put the new potatoes into the fine and roast them . They were very sweet when cooked this way and was called preshkeen
   .I got these from my father .

   

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