School: Inishmagrath (roll number 15088)
- Location:
- Sheena, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs. C. Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 052
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- Oaten bread was made in the district in olden times from corn grown locally. It is thought that querns were used in olden times
Potato-cake, Boxty-bread, and oaten meal bread were eaten.
Potato-cake was made from boiled potatoes mashed up, a handful of flour added, and kneaded into a dough and then fried (into) on a pan.
Boxty bread was made in the same way only that the potatoes were not boiled, but (boiled) peeled raw, and grated or scraped.
Oaten-meal bread was made from oat-meal with a little milk or water added when kneaded, and baked in front of the fire.
Bread was baked every day. A cross was cut on the top of the cake to enable the cake to rise better. The baking vessel was called a pot0oven(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eva Buchanan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim
