School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0300, Page 402
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- (continued from previous page)griddle. This kind of bread was very hard and a person with bad teeth would have great difficulty in eating it. For that reason another contrivance called a bastilble was made in which the bread was baked. Bread baked in a bastible was much softer and better than that which was baked on a griddle. A bastible is a circular steel vessel resting on three legs. There is a steel cover on it. When the housekeeper would have a cake ready to put in the bastible she would put the bastible on the red coals of the fire. She would then put in the cake and place the lid on the bastible. She would put more fire on the lid and in a short time the cake would be baked.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Daniel O' Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
