School: Corrovally, Achadh Dúin, An Sciobairín (roll number 13961)
- Location:
- Corravoley, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eileen Reid
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- People make delicious wines from sloes, blackberries, dandelions, elderberries, rhubarb and many others. Cider is also made from apples.
My mother makes a delicious wine from sloes. At first a large earthenware jar is procured, then a layer of sloes is placed in the bottom of the jar. These are then covered with sugar. Next, a second layer of sloes and sugar on these again, and so on till the jar is about three quarters full.
The jar is then covered with a piece of muslin and left in a cool place for about seven or eight weeks.
At the end of this time the wine is fit for use. The liquid is strained out of the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Betty Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardura Beg, Co. Cork
- Informant
- J. Connell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Ardura Beg, Co. Cork