Food

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Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn], 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/58

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn] collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay describing the leather 'imideal' tied around the mouth of the churn and the manner in which it would be used to churn butter.

Dates: 10 July 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for Cairiste or Presan, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/57

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for Cairiste or Presan describing it as a payment to the landlord for a half pennyland which is made up of six yards of linen, two stones of butter, two and a half stones of cheese and three bolls of oatmeal. 'Fear na feorlig' or someone with a farthing land (half of a half pennyland) would pay half of the quantity listed.

Dates: 1867

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Crannachan' and accompanying fragment of a custom about 'gaoisid', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/185

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Crannachan = Bainne buailte = Ce cìa whisked' and accompanying fragment of a custom which reads 'Tha gaoisid [-] fheaman a bho - not of horse, best in slight frost - Halloween often.'

Dates: 1894