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Halloween. |
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Halloween in my young days was more or less kept within the house, partly because the bigger fellows were going about taking off gates and tying doors or rapping doors and things like that, but most of the younger ones, in fact up to 14, 15 years of age would be kept indoors and they'd have nuts and play games in the house, but that's all. There'd be no parties such as one house going to the other for Halloween night. Everyone had their own, and of course the mother of the house had boxty made, and that was made sometime up to before bedtime, for it would be your supper for that night. For Halloween apple dumplings was the thing. The apples was sliced and put onto the bread-board and then there was a pastry, or whatever you call it, bread and flour and soda and stuff rolled round it and then it was put into a linen cloth, tied, put in a pot and boiled. When it was done took out and cut in slices. It was very heavy, you'd sweat like a pig after it! I never liked it very much.
Ref: 90-19-38.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Wilson Elliot |
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90-19-38.mp3
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