School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 253
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- Foods that have ceased to be used. Boxty bread was made from raw potatoes. First the potatoes are washed, peeled and grated and put into a clean cloth. The water is wrung out of them, they are then put into a basin and mixed with flour, soda and salt. It is then cut in farrels and put in the oven.
Sowens was made from seedy meal. First it is steeped in a basin of water for four days then the seeds are taken out of the water and boiled.
- Collector
- Winnie Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Edward Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal
