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School: Tullyvin

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Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
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M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 345

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 345

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    Boxty:- Boxty bread was made by grating about twelve, peeled, raw potatoes and putting them in a dish. Then by mashing the same number of peeled and boiled potatoes, and mixing both these ingredients. Then a pinch of salt and some flour was added, and all these were beaten until it was in a dry paste. This was rolled out and baked in a similar as the potatoe-Cake.
    This paste could also be made into dumplings, by making balls of them and boiling them in clean boiling water for a period of about an hour.
    Indian-meal-bread:- This was made by mixing a certain amount of wheaten meal, a pinch of salt and wetting it with sour milk. When this was made into a paste
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena B. Fox
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corgreagh, Co. Cavan