School: Urcher
- Location:
- Urcher, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Martha Allister
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)mixed bread was commonly used then, but it is greatly done away with now.
People never ate after supper time, and if anyone came they would not make tea. Boxty was eaten at Hallow Eve and back and eggs were eaten at Easter.
The young people always had a fire outside and they boiled eggs and had a feast outside.
Tea was always used twice a day between seventy and eighty years ago.
Boxty Bread
When you are making some boxty bread. First some new potatoes are grated. Then they are put in a clean cloth and the juice is all squeezed out of them.
Then you buise[?] some boiled potatoes and mix them with the raw dry potatoes, then mix it with a little flour, add a little salt, and roll it into a cake, and(continues on next page)
