School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 084
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- Long ago the people did not eat as much food as now. They had three meals each day, their breakfast, dinner and supper. Every morning before their breakfast, they did a lot of work. Then they got their breakfast of porridge, sweet milk and bread.At two oclock they had their dinner of potatoes bacon cabbage and eggs, the table used was the pot in which the potatoes were boiled sitting in the middle of the floor, and a basket on top of it full of potatoes and a pan of bacon and cabbage and naggins of milk. They had their supper of porridge early in the night and they went early to bed. In these times there was neither tea nor sugar and people were stronger and healthier because they had not sweet food.
- Collector
- Kathleen Marron
- Gender
- Female
