School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0013, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)The Boxty scraper was made from a piece of tin perforated by a nail to produce a rough surface.
The potatoes when grated formed a thick soft substance to which salt and bread soda were added and then the whole mixture was dried up with flour and cut into four parleys and baked on a griddle or in a pan without a lid.
Another type of bread made was Potatoe-cake which was made from boiled potatoes peeled and mashed up in a basin and mixed with salt and flour and sometimes oaten-meal.
There was another sort of bread made from equal quantities of flour and oaten meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilís de Búrca
- Other names
- Eilís de Búrca
- Lizzie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monasterowen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pádhraic de Búrca
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 72
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway
