School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 420
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- (continued from previous page)lest it should burn. Of course at the present time and within the last five years there was more oaten bread made in this district as also boxty than forty years ago owing to the dearness of flour and the price of loaves.
Wheaten bread or wheat-meal bread is mixed in a basin with soda and salt and usually wet with buttermilk and made on similar lines as the soda cake of the present day, baked in an oven but takes longer than the foreign flour bread. It too was used extensively in the last five years though the labouring classes refuse to it in the farmers' houses since they got the "Dole". Of course no one would eat this bread twenty years ago but "necessity is the mother of invention.
