School: Breac-Cluain (roll number 4796)
- Location:
- Brackloon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 496
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- Bread was made in olden times from wheat and corn grown locally, flour was also made locally. The people do not remember querns being used in the district, but the old people say they heard their grandfathers talking about them.
Potato-cake was usually made at the digging of the potatoes in harvest. Boxty bread was made in harvest also.
When Boxty is making they first peel the potatoes, and then scrape them. When this is done they strean the juice out of it. Then the cake was made with the juice.
Potato-cake was made by bruising up boiled potatoes and making, mixing them with flour and shaping it into a cake. Bread was baked every day. The name usually given to the baking vessel (in) around this locality is the oven and sometimes they call it the dispatcher.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Mc Greal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Owenwee, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- W. Kearns
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Owenwee, Co. Mayo
