School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)

Location:
Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 81

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    Sometimes they made as much bread in one day as did them for two or three days.
    My mother puts lines on the top of the cake of bread in the shape of a cross. This is to keep the top of the cake from rising off.
    The vessel for baking the bread is called an oven. It is used for baking big cakes.
    A vessel called a pan is used for baking [?] small thin cakes of bread.
    The thing that is used for baking oat-bread is called a bread-iron. It is made from thin bars of iron.
    The old people made boxty bread in the following way
    First they peeled raw potatoes and cut them into very small pieces. Then they put them into
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Margret Gallen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meenreagh, Co. Donegal