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School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)

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Frosses, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 126

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    Boxty is a kind of potato - bread. Nowadays boxty is a luxury and is only made in the country on "Set Nights". But in the years (eighty) eighteen eighty and eighteen seventy when the crops failed, owing to the damp summers, boxty first made its appearance. It was the chief food of the peasantry at that time.
    Most of the potatoes were rotten. The sound portion of these potatoes were grated and made into boxty.
    When a woman makes boxty she first makes grates the potatoes with a grater.
    A grater is a small piece of tin. On one side there is a rough surface. The potatoes are rubbed up and down on this rough surface. This makes them into a thick liquid.
    Then the woman gets a thick piece of muslin and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bernadetta Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    16
    Address
    Frosses, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Charles Campbell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    85
    Occupation
    Grocer
    Address
    Frosses, Co. Donegal