School: Cill Uachtair
- Location:
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- How Boxty is made
Boxty is made in many ways. I know two ways for making it, to boil it or to bake it.
The way the boiled boxty is made is, first of all you get potatoes and wash them. Then you put half of them down to boil and leave the other half aside for a few minutes. After a while you get a grater and you grate them into a basin and when the other potatoes are boiled you mix all up together and put flour, salt and caraway seeds with it. Then you have a pot of water boiling and you make little cakes out of the mixture and put them into the pot of water and in three quarters of an hour you will have boxty.
The baked boxty is made differently. There is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sínead Ní Liadáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs P. Leyden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
