School: Monagea (B.), Newcastlewest (roll number 9401)

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   “People had three meals a day in olden times.”

   

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   bread long ago, such as potatoe cake, stampy, oaten meal bread, Rye bread, yellow meal bread, and cream cakes, which was a great treat in them times.
   The potatoe cake was made by boiling the potatoes and when boiled they used to peel them, they then mixed them through flour. They used bake them in the usual way. The stampy was made by grating the potatoes with a grater and put into a fine cloth and they used to squeeze them and they used to mix flour with it.
   Oaten meal bread was made by mixing oaten meal and flour and soda and they used bake it in the usual way.
   The yellow meal bread was made by mixing meal, flour, and soda together and it was then baked.
   Long ago people used to make cream cakes when they were expecting visitors. It was made with cream, flour and soda and baked in the same way as the others. Some people used to make bread once a week and others used to make it once a fortnight. The bread was sometimes made at night when all the work was finished.

   

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Mulcahy

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Mulcahy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballylinane, Co. Limerick