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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   The dumplings were made the same way as the boxty but that they were boiled instead of baked and eaten with sweet milk and sugar. On special feast days special foods were eaten eggs on Easter Sunday, pancakes and bacon on Shrove Tuesday night for supper. And of course the special Xmas feast. Fifty years ago very little tea was used. The old people in a house got tea in the morning but children not at all. The noggin and pewter plate were the vessels in use before cups and plates were used. I often saw both: The noggin was a little wooden tup like this when scrubbed white. They were nice along the bottom shelf of the dresser. The pewter plates were ordinary sized plates and when scoured would shine like silver. The plates were more for ornamenting a dresser than for use as very few plates were used at all except at parties or when a priest came to a house to read mass. There was a man named Scott who lived where the present Sankey now lives on that estate called Fort Frederick beside Lough Ramor. When he killed a pig he sent the bacon to the houses of the tennants to have it smoked by their turf fires in the old fashioned chimneys.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Thomas Cogan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cornacreeve, Co. Cavan