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School: Naomh Baoithin, Tullydish (roll number 3160)

Location:
Tullydush Upper, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 80

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    The way that this bread is made is made by us is by puting about two bowl fulls of whole of oaten meal and a little hot water in a basin a kneading this untill it is made into a dough. This is then spread out on the bake board and kneaded then it is put on the frying pan on the fire to coak and cut with a (knife) knife in the form of farls,
    It is a custom in our district each year for a few men to send corn away to be ground into meal, in a mill in Burt between Buncrana and Derry. In about a fortnight's time these people receive this corn back in the form of oaten-meal. On the day they get it
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Owen Barr
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gransha, Co. Donegal