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School: Robertson (roll number 12276)

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Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Liam Ó Morchadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 190

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    After the corn is threshed at the mill a bag of shelling seeds is taken home along with the meal. The shelling seeds and a bowl of meal is steeped in water for about seven days, by this time it is strained through a strainer poured into a large pot and put on the fire to boil. It has to stirred all the time in the one direction and when cooked for some time it is poured into a large basin and then each person takes their share like porridge.
    Boxtay. First of all the potatoes are washed, grated, skin and all then mixed with oatmeal and roll in butter next put the mixture between two cabbage leaves and boil. When cooked it is lifted from the fire and eaten.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rhoda Devlin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    17
    Informant
    Mrs Devlin
    Gender
    Female

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    The people made their bread in a pot oven or on a griddle in front of the fire.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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