School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)
- Location:
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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- Boxty is a kind of potato - bread. Nowadays boxty is a luxury and is only made in the country on "Set Nights". But in the years (eighty) eighteen eighty and eighteen seventy when the crops failed, owing to the damp summers, boxty first made its appearance. It was the chief food of the peasantry at that time.
Most of the potatoes were rotten. The sound portion of these potatoes were grated and made into boxty.
When a woman makes boxty she first makes grates the potatoes with a grater.
A grater is a small piece of tin. On one side there is a rough surface. The potatoes are rubbed up and down on this rough surface. This makes them into a thick liquid.
Then the woman gets a thick piece of muslin and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bernadetta Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Charles Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Occupation
- Grocer
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal