School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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Potato cake is made of potatoes, flour, and salt, mixed with buttermilk, and then put on a pan to bake.
Oaten meal cake is made of oaten meal and a pinch of salt mixed with water and then put on a griddle to bake before the fire.
Boxty bread is made from potatoes, flour, and salt.
First the potatoes are rasped with a rasp, then the water is squeezed from the potatoes, and the flour and potatoes are mixed with the water which was squeezed from the potatoes, and then put on a pan to bake.
Long ago when people were(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Glynn
- Gender
- Female