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School: Cill Díoma (C.) (roll number 6517)

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Kildimo, Co. Limerick
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Eilís Ní Chathail
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    Food in Olden Times.
    In the morning before day dawned the people boiled a big pot of stirabout, which was made from Indian meal. This is what the people used for breakfast. In the cases of the poorer people this formed their entire daily meal.
    For dinner they usually had potatoes and milk, very often the milk was sour. Meat was rarely used except in the homes of the richer people. Stirabout or potatoes formed their evening meal.
    The bread the people used was very coarse and dry. They ground the what between two circular stones to make the flour and then they baked the bread on a griddle. In some cases the people made bread from oaten-meal.
    During the famine the people ate raw turnips.
    Age 50. Patrick Ryan, Old Kildimo.
    Peggy Ryan.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kildimo (Old), Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Patrick Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Kildimo (Old), Co. Limerick