School: Moynalvey (roll number 7567)
- Location:
- Moynalvy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs Bridget M. Kelly
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- Boxty breadGrate raw potatoes and slice boiled ones; mix the two together with milk and flour. Shake a grain of salt on the mixture; then mix all together. Level it with your hands and bake it on the griddle. This bread is still made by my mother.Oantenmeal breadSalt is shaken into the oaten-meal, which is wet with water. Then it is made like an ordinary cake with the hands. The hearthstone is then cleaned away. Then the cake is either put standing against a kettle or a pot. When one side is baked, the other side is turned and so on, until the cake is baked through. Thein it is put on a hedge or in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Comey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Rosie Comey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrypatrick, Co. Meath