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School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)

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Cloontia, Co. Mayo
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Máire Ní Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 6

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    “About eighty years ago people had three meals...”

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    a little while and then drunk.
    Boxty bread was made by scraping the potatoes on a scraper into a pulp then the water was squeezed out of the pulp and the pulp and some masked cooked potatoes kneaded together, salt was added and the bread then baked in a pot oven or in a pan. Sometimes the water was left in the pulp and a little flour added instead of the cooked potatoes.
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    “We would have half a day's work...”

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    We would have half a day's work done at 10 o'clock in the morning and our breakfast was growing in the field when we went out to work. The women came to the field of oats and cut as much as would make our breakfast of porridge, took it home got the grain from it and ground it in the "quern" made the porridge and had a wholesome breakfast of buttermilk and porridge waiting for us at 10 o'clock.
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    “Oatmeal bread without any flour...”

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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnaghbeg, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Ellen Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Tawnaghbeg, Co. Mayo