School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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- (continued from previous page)towards the fire a few times until it is baked.
Another great food used then was potato bread. About ten large potatoes were peeled and bruised very fine on the table. Then a little flour is mixed with them and a very small drop of buttermilk put through it. It is then baked on a pan on the fire.
Sowens are made of oat meal and buttermilk. The oatmeal is steeped in buttermilk for a few days. Then more buttermilk is boiled and the oatmeal is taken out of the buttermilk and put on the boiling buttermilk and made like porridge. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Patsy Meehan
- Address
- Inishammon, Co. Monaghan