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Rural/Farm Life

oneshooter

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3. The only thing good that came out of the Great Famine was

Reply to farminator3000 (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2014, 12:57 AM

Jan 2014

SODA BREAD. Yes the development of soda coincided with the famine. Irish soda bread was used to replace the potato as a basis of the Irish laborers diet. A simple bread that only had three common ingredients, and soda. It was both cheap, and easy to make.

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Meet the Lumper! (the spud that caused the Irish famine) [View all] farminator3000 Mar 2013 OP

I had no idea the taste of the potato was sometimes not very pleasant. fasttense Mar 2013 #1

I recently read The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith FedUpWithIt All Apr 2013 #2

The only thing good that came out of the Great Famine was oneshooter Jan 2014 #3