Scoil: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (uimhir rolla 12138)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Food of the Olden Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   the wall would be brought out in the middle of the house. There were special days that people used to eat special food such as a goose
   on Christmas Day on New Year's Day and some kind of meat or other on St. Martin's (11th November) and St. Michael's (29th September) and eggs on Easter Sunday and new potatoes or "cally" on Garland Sunday.
   It is a good while now since tea came into use first there was stations in Flaherty's in Cloonagh and Mrs Flaherty decided to make tea for the priest. She made the tea in the usually way but instead of the tea she brought the tea-leaves in a plate to the priest.
   That time half the people of this place had no cow at all but they used to have sheep milk or goat's milk. They used to boil oat-meal
   and sheep milk and eat it at any meal. Most of the people of this place used to eat only three meals and sometimes they would eat four. Those who had cows had butter and often they would eat cabbage
   with butter and some people used to put butter in their eggs when they would be eating them. If people had any kind of sickness a cure was to eat an egg raw. When people used to be working in the bogs long ago they used to eat raw eggs to strengthen them. People used to eat a lot of haws and sloes and blackberries long ago.
   They used to bake cakes in griddles long ago, particularly oaten-cakes and these were sometimes called "griddle cakes". They used the potatoes and stirabout in skillets which

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. táirgí
      1. táirgí bia (~3,601)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Mc Gagh

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe

   Faisnéiseoir

   James Kennedy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   77

   Seoladh

   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe