School: Killea (roll number 3219)

Location:
Killea, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 255

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 255

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  2. When a woman desires to make potato cake or slim cake as it is known in this locality she first procures sufficient potatoes and washes them. Then she puts into a pot wtih enough water to cover them and hangs it on the fire to boil. When the potatoes are boiled she takes them off and teems the water out of the pot. This is done by placing a cloth over the snout of the pot and letting the water pour through it. Then she peels the potatoes and puts on a plate. She gets a basin and shakes a little flour in it. She then puts the potatoes in one by one adn pounds them or with a porringer. Some people use a grater but mostly a porringer is used as a grater maeks the potatoes very sticky. When all the potatoes are grated flour adn salt are added adn mixed with them. The
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