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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   Long ago the people used griddle bread. They kneaded it (with) on a breadboard and wet it with vinegar and buttermilk. It was baked on a griddle left standing against the grate. It took an hour and a half to bake it. This was oatmeal bread. The people did not use flour at all at this time. Other kinds of bread was Indian bread but it was made the same way as the griddle bread only that it was wet with new milk and there was some butter put through it in order to stick it together. It was baked on a lid just like the lid of an oven that there was a handle out of it.

   Annie Pagnam, Selton
   Recorded from James Curran, Selton, Kilclare, Carrick-on-Shannon, 65 years

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   

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   In older times meals were eaten three times a day. The brekfast was eaten at nine o clock. It consisted of oatmeal porridge and new milk. This was followed by oatmeal bread (which was baked on a griddle before the fire) and new milk. the men rose

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Winnie Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Sheffield, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   John Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   46

   Address

   Sheffield, Co. Leitrim