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   In olden times the usual number of meals was three. The meals were the breakfast, dinner and the supper. The people never drank tea in their lives. They ate their breakfast at nine oclock, and their dinner at one oclock and their supper at eight. They worked about two hours in the morning before their breakfast. the breakfast consisted of potatoes and butter milk. The supper consisted of porridge and potatoes. poor people milked the goat and boiled the milk which they called "gidley". There were no tables at all long ago. When the would be eating potatoes they used put a bag in the middle of the floor and put the potatoes on the bag and sit on the floor and eat them. They always ate oaten bread long ago. They never ate sweet bread in their lives. They always ate meat and fish. They never ate a meal any later than twelve oclock. They killed a cock on St Martin's day and they sprinkled the blood in every corner of the house. Then they went out in the cow-house and the

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Coyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corralea, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mr Peter Coyle

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corralea, Co. Roscommon