School: Kilcleagh (Mixed) (roll number 14742)
- Location:
- Kilcleagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Murphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0744, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)adding a little milk and then baking on a griddle. Boxty-bread was made with raw potatoes and boiled potatoes. The raw potatoes were grated and mixed with the boiled potatoes which had been bruised. To this a little flour and salt were added and well mixed, then this was put on the griddle and baked. In olden times enough of bread was made to do a week or so at a time. A cross is always put on a cake in order to bake it in the centre. The name of the vessel in which the bread is baked is a pot-oven. Bread was usually baked before the fire in olden times. On Shrove Tuesday pan-cakes were made and currant cakes were made for Christmas.
- Collector
- Annie Claffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killogeenaghan, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs P. Claffey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killogeenaghan, Co. Westmeath
