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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

Location:
Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 402

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    The people long ago used to make the bread from oatmeal. There were no flour until lately but their own homemade bread and that was a hard oatmeal cake baked in a gridiron.
    When the people used to go making boxty, they used to bore a plate of tin for scrapers. Then they used to get a plate of raw potatoes and scrape them and then squeeze it. Then they would get a piece of calico and make a bag for it and squeeze it again.
    Then they would get a few boiled potatoes and mix it up like a potato cake and then a small grain of flour was put for kneading. Then it was baked in a lid of a pot and leaf of cabbage was put on top for fear the hens would come
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Rattigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballindine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Catherine Rattigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballindine, Co. Mayo