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School: Empor (roll number 941)

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Emper, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 056

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 056

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    the meal afterwards.
    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
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Glynn
    Gender
    Female