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School: Dromseanbhoth (B.)

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Seán Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 413

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  1. How Our Grandmothers Made Food or Bread from Potatoes, also Starch

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    In olden days the people used to make their own food out of their home grown products. The old people used to sow a lot of oats and they used to send it to the mill to be ground into oaten meal and from it they made oaten bread and porridge. From the potatoes they made boxty starch, and potato bread. They used to sow their own wheat, and send it to the mill to be ground into flour.
    To make boxty they peeled a few potatoes, then they used to great them with a grater. Then
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Beirne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Margaret Beirne
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    89