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School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)

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Roosky, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Luke Caslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 114

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    and squeezed the water out of them. She then put the grated potatoes in a basin and mixed flour and salt with them.
    Then she boiled a pot of water and put the boxty in the pot in the shape of little cakes called "dumplings" out. It can be eaten with butter or it can be put on the pan and crisped.
    My granny said, this is the way herself made an oaten cake. First she put oaten meal in a basin and then she put water in it. She then made it into a cake. Then she put it lying against a prop viz. a stool, a board, or a sod of turf.
    After some time it is baked and it is to be eaten when it is warm.
    Thomas Caslin,
    Rooskey,
    Co. Roscommon.
    16th May '38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Caslin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Jane Clabby
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Roscommon