Scoil: Boyerstown (uimhir rolla 13285)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Food in Olden Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   would have nothing at all.
   They made bread on a griddle with four handles. They had also a thing they called a griddle stand. It had three legs. It was of a round shape. The black-smyth made the griddle stand. The bread they made was called slim bread. It was made on water and soda. Why they made it on water was that it would never rise. They often kept the bread for a fortnight and it would not be stale. Miss Nevels mother who lived in Curraghtown always baked the bread a fortnight or three weeks before the mill came and she used to roll it in a cloth and it would be quite fresh. They used to put the pea bread beside the fire to bake.
   They might have meat on a Christmas Day. They would have their own bacon. They used to hang the bacon accross the chimney to dry and to have it nicely smoked. They used not to have much vegetables at that time. They used to have plenty of white cabbage and yellow turnips and some times they would have parsnips. When they would have no cabbage in Spring they would boil water grass or nettles or pressah. They also eat water

   (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

   Sheila Boyle

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   14

   Seoladh

   Curraghtown, Co. na Mí

   Faisnéiseoir

   Kate Mahon

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   85

   Seoladh

   Gainstown, Co. na Mí