School: Baile an Doire (roll number 15156)
- Location:
- Ballinderry, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)put on the pan to bake, but the cake used to be generally cut into four equal parleys. When oatmeal bread was been made, oaten-meal and flour were mixed and wet with a little water for water was generally added in kneading in olden times. An oat-meal cake used to be very small as it had to be baked on the tongs. There used to be a cross cut out on the top of every cake to make it firm.
Bread was baked in an oven or a pot-oven long ago. Griddle bread was baked on a support. This support was called a stand and it was made of iron. It is still used.
Pan-cakes used to be made only on Shrove Tuesday.- Collector
- Séamus Mac Diarmada
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornashinnagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs M. Mc Dermott
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornashinnagh, Co. Roscommon