School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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- (continued from previous page)were waiting for the bread car.
It is commonly baked in a pot oven but sometimes in a range or oil stove. They say that soda bread baked in an oven on a white thorn bush fire tastes best of all.
White flour or a mixture of flour and wheaten meal are put in a basin. A little soda and salt are added and the mixture is wet with buttermilk. The dough is well kneaded and shaped. It is put into the oven. A cross is cut on top to keep the crust from breaking.
We bake two big soda cakes at home every day as the men would not be satisfied with loaf bread.
- Collector
- Mary Bannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnstown, Co. Westmeath
