School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Dring, Co. Longford
- Teacher: James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 197
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- In olden times the people used to make different kinds of bread, such as potato bread, boxty bread, and oaten meal bread.
The way potato bread is made is:- first, five or six boiled potatoes are got and the skin is taken off them. Then they are bruised with a roller and put into a basin along with flour and sweet milk and sugar and salt. Then the dough is mixed well and put on a pan beside the fire. There is a lot of coals put under the pan so that the cake will bake well.
It takes it an hour to bake.
The way boxty bread is made is :- first potatoes are got and are washed well. Then the skin is taken off them and they are grated into a basin with a grater. There is some water taken off the grated potatoes; then flour and milk and salt are put in, and then they are mixed up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballinrooey, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Ellen Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Ballinrooey, Co. Longford
