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School: Skeoghvosteen, Goresbridge (roll number 16140)

Location:
Skeaghvasteen, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Liam Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858, Page 018

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    Wheat and oats were grown locally People heard of querns being used in the district. The kinds of bread that were made was potato-cake and oaten-meal bread. The ingredients used for potato-cake were potatoes and flour and soda and salt. Oaten-meal bread was made from oaten-meal and soda and salt. Milk or water was used in kneading. There was enough bread made for a week. The bread was baked on a griddle. Bread was not baked before the fire.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Foley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mountloftus, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    John Foley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mountloftus, Co. Kilkenny