School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eóin Mag Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 426
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- (continued from previous page)Soda was never used. Mostly leven bread, oatmeal bread, potato cakes and indian meal bread. All bread was baked on a griddle. When baked it was as hard as a stick. Black bread was made in a great many farm house. It was made from rye, which was grown on the farm. Oaten bread was baked before the fire, propped up with a few sods or bricks. Leven bread was wet with salt water put into a crock and left before the fire to rise some hours before it is baked it is remade again and put on a griddle to bake. Some people long ago baked bread with straw fires.
- Collector
- Michael Shalvey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Shalvey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 47
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Meath
