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1. Food in Olden Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Food in the old times
   8. 7. 1938

   In the olden times people use to have three meals a day, breakfast at eight oclock dinner at one and supper at seven. They generally worked two or three hours before their breakfast. Their food consisted of poridge, potatoes, buttermilk caten bread, fish both fresh and dried. Some had eggs, fowl and bacon.
   At meal time the table was placed in the center of the floor and the people sat round it. In some small houses the table was kept hung up on the wall in between the meals. Poor people did not use a table at all. They put a basket full of potatoes on a pot they family sat round it each provided with a mug of buttermilk and a knive.

   Oaten and wheaten bread were used. It was baked on a griddle on a pot oven. A kind of bread called boxty which was made from

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