School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 281
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- (continued from previous page)and made into small round cakes. These are placed in a pot of boiling water with a plate in it to keep them from sticking to the bottom of the pot. They are kept well stirred with a potstick. When they are boiled they are taken up, put on plates with plenty of sugar, butter and bratain.
- A quart of oatmeal is got and stept in water for twenty-four hours. Some people add seeds that come from the mill to this to sour it. This is strained, put into a clean pot, placed over a slow fire, kept constantly stirred until it boils and simmers for three hours.
- Collector
- Mary Hackett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- An oat-cake is not made like(continues on next page)