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School: Páirc na gCrann (roll number 16042)

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Woodfield, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0111, Page 107

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    The people of this district in former times made bread which differs from what they make now. There was no flour or factories in those times and the people had to make their own flour by grinding local corn with grind-stones.
    Potato-cake, boxty-bread, and oaten meal bread were some of the common foods used by the old people. They made boxty-bread by scraping potatoes into a baisin. They then put soda flour and salt into it also and mixed them up together. They cleaned the hearth-stone next and left and left the boxty-cake down on it to bake. As time went on griddles came into use. Once in the year the people made currant-bread and that was a Christmass.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Ghairibhín
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Rinn, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Henry Garvey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Rinn, Co. Mayo