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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   Food in Olden Times

   I remember my father saying that when he got up in the morning his breakfast was in the stack."
   He had to bring in an armful of corn, hand-thresh it with a flail on the floor and then grind it between stones a sort of rough hand mill or quern. Then he boiled the grain on water and had oaten stirabout.
   He had hard oaten cake baked on a griddle for bread. I remember eating the hard oaten cake when I was a boy about 60 years ago.
   Potatoes were used for dinner and supper with very little "kitchen". The farmers usually bought large quantities of herrings, and these were salted down and used during the year.
   I heard of a man going to work to Ferns and when he reached the place he got cold potatoes for his breakfast.
   The wheaten grain was ground with a hand mill and then sieved to get the flour.
   "Flummery" was another supper dish. It was made with fine oaten meal and milk boiled.
   "Prapeen" was made from wheat boiled with milk

   Pat Breen (71)
   Blackpost Cottage, Tombrack

   

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