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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   Food in Olden Times. Long ago they used only eat three meals every day. Work was always done before breakfast they used work for about two hours or so and then eat their breakfast. Potatoes were generally eaten at every meal, sour milk they used eat with them. They used sometimes have porridge for supper either oatmeal or yellow meal . At Christmas people used have butter and meat but no other time. At Easter they used have eggs nearly for all meals. But no other time.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ita Curtin

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patrick Curtin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   62

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Rockhill West, Co. Cork

2. Food in Olden Times

   

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   In olden times people had three meals a day, and for these three meals they had potatoes and skim milk. The three meals they used have were their breakfast, dinner, and supper.
   People always worked in former times before breakfast. They usually had their

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