School: Gleann Bruacháin (B.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12613)
- Location:
- Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: P.B. Shine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 370
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- Staple foods:- (1) Potatoes
In the years following the famine the people of this locality were very careful not to cultivate any kinds of potatoes except the varieties best able to resist the blight. These were often of a poor quality for food, being very watery or greasy and containing very little starch (flour). So that a sufficient quantity of fairly good quality might be available for the entire household immense pots of them were boiled for each meal.
The first pot of them should be washed and boiled at six o'clock (cock crow) a.m. for the workmen's breakfast. The milk of the previous morning was then skimmed to give each workman a peggin of fresh "skim." This with salt constituted every breakfast for both farmer and laborer. The well-to-do farmer and his wife had an egg or two and a "print" of butter at breakfast and dinner and sometimes home or querin crushed oaten meal boiled for supper.
The farmer and his wife never sat at table for dinner with the children or workmen. Even though there was no(continues on next page)
