Show OLD CUSTOM IN ORKNEY products of the sea made to eke out scant crops i in orkney during the earlier halt of last centar when crofts and crops were small the men would cut a few sheaves with the shearing hook thrash them over a stick fixed across a corner of the house and in the evening if weather permitted take their 1 atle boats and go for an hour or two s fishing in the dusk mean cihil Ti hil the women to dried the grain in a pot 0 er the peat fire ground it after yard in a hand quern sifted the meal and had it baked in bannocks in to eat with the bcd or s 1 brought home from the sea the P lern Is used at the pie ont day but only for grinding malt and for mal ing burstin which is a mixture of oats and barley dried to crispness ground but not too fine and ea en with |