School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)bread made, Boxty, Potato cake, Oatmeal cake, and Meal and Home made flour cake.
Recipe for Boxty = Wash potatoes clean and grate them. Put them into a cloth and squeeze well. Mix with flour then and knead well to make into cake. Put griddle on fire and grease well then put on Boxty cake.
Boxty on the griddle
Boxty on the pan
If you dont eat Boxty
You'll never get a man.
Oatmeal cake = wet oatmeal with soft water and knead well, and flatten out into a large scone. The bake on a griddle on front of the fire. A cross used to be made with the fingers on top of the cakes. The potato and Oatmeal Cakes used to be made specially for November Eve and Christmas(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaboll, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss A Gilhooly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaboll, Co. Sligo
