School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 216
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- (continued from previous page)was called 'Stampi cake' which was a great treat.
It is only about a hundred years ago since tea was first used, and about eighty since cups were first used in the district.
- They made oaten bread by drying the oats in a pot, then by sieving it, then by grinding it with a quern and they made a cake of it, and baked it in a griddle - a kind of a thing with three legs under it.
For most meals they ate potatoes. Every house used fish for itself and these fish they salted for the Winter. They roasted them on the tongs for their dinner. They also made potato cakes called "stampy" which was very indigestible, very thin, and stiff. On "Hallow's Eve" they used to have "stampy". Sometimes for a change they used to put wheat into a pot over a slow fire and they used to keep stirring it all the time until it was soft. They used to put a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maura Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
