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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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  2. Food in Olden Times

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    Long ago people took their breakfast at eight o' clock, their dinner at twelve o' clock, and their supper at six.
    For their breakfast they took buttermilk and oaten bread, for their dinner potatoes and salt, and for their supper buttermilk and bread. When dinner time came a pot of potatoes was put in the middle of the floor and everyone sat in the middle of the floor and ate them with butter and salt.
    Before breakfast the people did their work and the children went through the
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mona Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Female