Food in Olden Times
1st July 1938
In the olden time people used only eat three meals a day.
All the men went out before their breakfasts and did about an hour's work, and then they came into a good breakfast of potatoes and milk, or oatmeal stirabout.
After a good while they would come in to dinner which consisted of potatoes, milk, butter, and eggs.
When evening came they had a good meal of oaten bread, and milk which they drank out of wooden noggins.
That is the last meal they would have until next morning. The men would go out visiting when night came and the women stayed at home spinning.
“INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell, Age 77, Prison North, Co. Mayo”