School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)She kneads the dough until it becomes ball-shaped. She then pats it into a well-greased hot oven and makes a cross on the top to help it rise. She covers the lid with glowing embers and hangs the oven over a "slow" fire. Sometimes she puts the oven beside the fire.
Potatoe-bread is made in a different way. First of all, the potatoes are boiled and then peeled. Then they are mashed. Flour, salt soda and sometimes, even sugar and currants. When it is put on the pan it is cut in quarters.
"Boxty bread kills a man dead".
Flour does him no harm.
Wheaten bread purifies the blood,
But oaten is the darlin'."
- Collector
- Paul Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan
