School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- (continued from previous page)Continuation of Cookery pages.Once a simple boy was asked by his master what he considered the best manure for cabbage.
"Fat bacon Sir" answered the innocent lad.
This way of cooking a dinner seems to be peculiar to our own country and a very healthy dinner it is as few people who take their meals regularly and eat properly cooked bacon and cabbage suffer much from indigestion. - Some people still boil the tea and ruin both the tea and themselves. The first tea sold around here was 16/- a pound and I was talking to an old woman who was one of the first to drink it. And for a long time they didn't know how to make it.(continues on next page)