Scoil: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (uimhir rolla 4126)

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

   

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   On Christmas Eve the supper was eaten at nine o'clock, a meal of salted ling and potatoes. The table was re-set for the Christmas festivities, with glasses for punch, wine, porter and sweet cake and other novelties. The family did not partake of these until Christmas Day as they would start out at ten at ten o'clock from house to house feasting until morning. As far as I can trace tea was used seventy years ago by the old and delicate.
   They drank the tea from pewter pints, and milk form timber mugs or piggins. These were shaped like a timber milking can with a handle up out of it with a turn on it, something similar to walking stick.
   There are two houses in the parish. One house was the first to give up potatoes for breakfast and the other was the last, as it kept up the use of the potatoes for breakfast up to about thirty years ago. The following lines about the former shows they gave up potatoes for breakfast and used tea and cakes, and for supper they used thin stir-about. It was first

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