School: Knockanargan, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Knockanarrigan, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Annie Draper
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- The bread was made from flour and potates.
The flour was made locally.
The querns are to be seen still.
Potato - cake was made in our district.
The potato cake was made as follows.
Prepare the flour as for soda bread and add well mashed potatoes.
Then bake in an oven.
Buttermilk and water was what was used to knead the bread.
Every monday bread enough was made to do for a week.
The usual marks were a cross put in the top of the cake.
This was done to keep the cake from cracking.
The name given to the utensil in which the bread was baked was the
The coals were pulled out (griddle on the hearth and the griddle was put on them.
Griddle bread was made.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Susan Case
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Wicklow