School: Dromseanbhoth (B.)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhda
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- XML “How Our Grandmothers Made Food or Bread from Potatoes, also Starch”
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- (continued from previous page)they would wring it. Afar that they put a little flour on it and made cakes of it, then they got a pot of boiling water and put the cakes into it to boil. It was from the water that they wring out of the boxty that they made the starch. They used to leave the boxty water to settle for a while. Afar an hour they would skin the top of it, and the starch would be on the bottom.
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- Collector
- Thomas Francis Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgorman, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs B. Whelan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female