School: Meelick (B.)

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   meal; sometimes if money was plentiful the housewife would make hot griddle cake When dinner time came a big pot of potatoes was put on a big turf fire to boil. At that time there was very little coal. When the potatoes or "prátaí" as they were then called were boiled, they would be placed on the table and a bowl of buttermilk was placed before each person. For supper they usually had porridge Some people would have a potato cake, made of boiled potatoes, a little flour and wet with milk.

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2. Bia na Seanaimsire

   

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   Not very long ago the people of Ireland had no tea or wheaten flour. The people drank sweet milk and butter-milk instead of tea. Sometimes they drank skin-milk They had no flour at all. The made bread from oaten meal and barley. The bread made from oaten meal was called "oaten cake", and the bread made from barley was called "barley loaves". Oaten cakes were the most commonly made. It is said that

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