School: Askill (roll number 5294)
- Location:
- Askill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Padraig Ó Treabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)the grated potatoes and catching the juice in a shallow vessel. This was let stand in this vessel for ten hours or so when the starch held in solution fell to the bottom of the vessel and remained in a fairly hard mass. The water then on top was poured off and the starch made into a cake similar to the one above described.Potato cake was made of boiled potatoes The skins were removed and the potatoes bruised or pounded. To this was added a small quantity of flour and then kneaded, cut into flour farrels or parts baked on a pan over the fire, buttered on both side and placed on a plate one farrel over or on top of the other one.
- Collector
- Norah K. Travers
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Celia Travers
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Derryherk, Co. Leitrim
