School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)also Indian meal instead of flour was used in making the dough. People still retain the custom locally of making boxty at Hallow Eve. The new boxty however is quite soft and very nice to eat but long ago "Boxty cart-wheels" were made on the pan (very few families had ovens). When "boxty cart-wheels" were made it took a very sharp knife to cut them because they were very hard.
Oaten bread was largely eaten. This was made by wetting oat-meal with just enough water to make it stick together. It was rolled out with a bottle to about half an inch thick and was baked standing on a grid iron in front of the fire. A cake of oaten bread was usually made in the evening and left to "dry out" in front of the fire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mary Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. Cavan
