School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   and she says Easter Monday was the great egg eating day.
   She remembers when a youngster, herself and some more girls baking a cake "in the ditch" and roasting eggs in the gríseac. Eggs in those years were sold at 2d per dozen. She can never remember, nor her parents, a time when there was not tea.
   The vessels used at meals were entirely of wood - wooden noggins taking the place of cups and wooden trenches that of plates. She says the noggins were of two kinds: "Smart hooped" noggins and iron-hooped ones. The hoops of the former were apparently of brass and they were sometimes engraved and looked "smart", and I was told the latter were pretty too when the iron hoops were scrubbed and shone.
   The "Grand" people used pewter and she told me of a neighbour Miss Murphy of Garrymoyle as having a "dresser of pewter". The vessels were sold to the Jews she said.
   Miss O'Connor gave a detail of eating in the old days: A certain Byrne of Garrysadden (his son is lately dead as an old man) lay down "on his hips" beside a heap of potatoes on a certain night preparatory to a journey to Wexford

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Miss O' Connor

   Gender

   Female