School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)hammer. We make holes in the tin. We get big potatoes and take the skin off them.
Then we scrape the potatoes one by one into a baisin. When that is done, we put salt, soda and then we nearly thicken it with flour. We heat a pan and put butter on it we put down some of the boxty on the pan. We leave it there until it is baked.We take it up, and put some more butter on it. That's the way we make the boxty. Some people in this district put cold boiled potatoes with the boxty.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ita Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo