School: Réidh Ghlas (roll number 14853)
- Location:
- Knockardtry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 409
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- There are many kinds of bread. In olden times they used to make yellow squares out of Indian meal and flour. They used to make the flour themselves. They grew wheat and then they thrashed it and collected the grain and dried it and ground it in a curren and made flour out of it. They also made stampy. First of all they got potatoes and washed them and pealed them they got a grater and grated the potatoes and took away the water then they made the bread with the grated potatoes flour salt no soda and they wet it with cream and they baked it in a griddle They left the water which they squeezed from the potatoes and they left it set then they put fresh water in it for three days. They draned the water from it then and put it out the bleach under the sun and then they had lovely white starch made. Long ago when a friend were coming to them they used to make sweet bread They made it out of flour(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
