School: Creagach
- Location:
- Craggagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán T. Ruane
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0118, Page 60
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- (continued from previous page)ladles, kept the sugar from getting out of the confines of the flag. After some time, as the melted sugar hardened it remained on the flag to be worked over and back by the makers until the color changes from the deep brown color to that of a golden shade. It was then drawn out into length of ordinary walking stick thickness, a strip of the molten unworked sugar was spaced down on the sides. The lengths were now left exposed to the air. They soon hardened and were broken into lengths of about 6 inches each and sold at 2 for a halfpenny. I am told that they were delicious to taste.
Some makers turned out various shapes and figures which showed artists' skill. Peppermint was sometimes introduced into the mixture giving the sweet a rich peppermint flavour. This industry is now no more.
- Collector
- Desmond Ruane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Craggagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Brian Luran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Gortgarve, Co. Mayo
