The Irish enjoy pastries called bannocks. Germans and Pennsylvania Dutch eatsauerkrauton New Year’s Day for good luck in the coming year. In India and Pakistan, rice promises prosperity. Apples dipped in honey
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. — Edmund Barton 74 If the primary purpose of school was edu...
20 eggs (Irish Free State)2 oz. ground cinnamon (Ceylon)1 ½ oz. ground cloves (Zanzibar)1 ½ oz. ground nutmegs (Straits Settlements)1 teaspoonful pudding spice (India)1 gill brandy (Cyprus)2 gills rum (Jamaica)2 quarts old beer (England)This was prepared by “the usual method” ...