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   for supper. They also eat rasp which was made by grating up the raw potatoes, and mixing with boiled ones and some flour, a little salt, and a little butter-milk. This was also baked on a griddle.

   

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2. Food in Olden Days

   

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   In olden times people used to diet many times a day, that is in the morning, at eleven o'clock at 2 o'clock, at 7 o'clock in the evening, and often-times before they retired to bed. The breakfast consisted of a mug of oaten porridge and buttermilk. Potatoes were used at practically all the meals. The first duty of the day was to boil a pot of

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Agnes Boland

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Castletown, Co. Westmeath