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From: "blanchec" <>
Subject: Re: OLD CORNWALL- MEALS
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:20:20 +1300

Elizabeth asked:

> I have been wondering what composed the three meals a day for our Cornish
> ancestors about mid last century. What was the average type of breakfast
in
> those days. There was no breakfast cereal. Was toast known then ? And
how
> about a beverage ? Was tea then still too expensive for the average
family?

Hi Elizabeth

If toast was around then - which I'm sure it would have been [held in front
of the fire on one of those special 'toasting forks'] - I bet I know what
our Cornish forebears did *not* spread on it! <g>

Blanche

Blanche Charles
Wellington, NZ

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