School: Desart, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 3839)
- Location:
- Ballymack (Desart), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mary Commins
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Desart, Cill Choinnigh
- XML Page 126
- XML “Bread”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Oaten bread was principally used, baked on a griddle. No flour was milled in this district. Querns were very common up to about twenty years ago. They were adjusted by means of a rag on the pivot which was called the navel.
Potato cake was very common too. It was wet with milk.