School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 439
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The above drawings represent the bread-irons. The prop could be moved backwards and forwards so as to change the slant of the iron. The cake, or as she called it "bonnack", of oat-bread was usually sufficient for 'lunch' for five children. It took about one hour to bake. it was quick hard and very nourishing. It supplied the principal item in the menu for all the meals in Lent.
Nowadays oaten-bread is usually baked on a grid-iron or on a pan. I have seen it baked standing against the leg of a stool by a woman who had no bread-iron and shoe disdains modern methods.
- Collector
- Annie Kathleen Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathbaun North, Co. Sligo
