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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   ecxept buttermilk. The children used to sit around the floor with a tablecloth full of potatoes and buttermilk, sometimes they got salt.
   Long ago the table was hung up against the wall when not in use. Barley bread was eaten long ago and oaten bread, wheaten bread, flour bread and sometimes the poor people used to mix yellow meal with the flour. The bread was nearly always made on a griddle. Meat was eaten once a week and it would be salt meat they'd eat Pork was usually eaten and it was too (3d or 4d per lb).
   Vegetables and fish were always eaten
   The strong living is gone out of fashion and there is nothing only the cup of tea used now, and the barley bread oaten bread and yellow meal cakes are gone out of fashion. People used never eat late at night. Sometimes on a feast day a sweet cake was made in a pot and that was all

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mollie Keegan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Aughermon, Co. Wexford