School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago the people used oaten bread. The way they made it was they got a basin and put some oaten meal in it. They put no flour or baking soda no buttermilk and no sweet milk in the basin to mix it up. They just put water in to mix up the oaten scone. They they put it on the fire anad they lunk it high and when they took it off it was like a big cake.
- They pulled the table out to the middle of the floor if there was a big family. If there was not a big family they did not bother. They just let it stay against(continues on next page)
