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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   milk, and for the supper they had bread and butter - milk. In olden times the people had the table behind the door and when they were going to eat they got the table from behind the door and placed it on the middle of the floor and when they were done eating they put it back to its place again. In olden times the people had no bread to eat except barley meal bread. It was counted the best lasting bread of all. When people used be going across the sea in ships they always baked this bread because it was good for lasting. It was made from flour and water and it was baked on a grid - iron. This was not like a pan, it was a flat piece of iron with one lug. A long piece of iron was put under the edge of it and the lug was put on the hob. In olden times the people had not much meat to eat so they got herrings and they hung them up in the chimney to get smoked and after a while they would cover them with salt. They called them kipp herrings. In the very hard times they had not a herring for them all, and sometimes they would only have one for four or five. So they tied a string out of the roof and tied a herring out of it and they could not get a good pinch out of the herring because it would go from them when they would touch it.
   Sometimes people had herrings if they had nothing to catch any other kind of fish. The people

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Luke Hayden

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mr Hayden

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   73

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Crowsgrove, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   Mrs Hayden

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   56

   Address

   Crowsgrove, Co. Carlow