School: Loughill, Longford
- Location:
- Laughil, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 413
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- Bread was made out of there own grain long ago. In every townsland was a little grinder and all the townsland would get their grain ground with that. The grinder was made out of two flat stones. The bottom one was set in the ground and on that the top one went around by means of a handle. Long ago the people ground their own flour There's an old quern stone in our street. Oaten bread, Potato Bread, Rasp-properly known as "boxty" were all made. Sometimes they mixed oat meal and potatoes and made what is called "Oaten Meal Potato Bread". Long ago the people baked bread on a griddle and they ate it according as they baked it. There were no marks put on cakes long ago. These are some of the vessels which bread on An oven, a griddle, and a pan. When you would be baking Oaten Bread you would put it standing before the fire and put a cake stand" to keep it up. The "cake stand" is made from iron by a blacksmith. At Christmas they would have current bread and on Hallow Eve also.
- Collector
- William Halligan
- Gender
- Male
