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   Wheat corn and oats were ground at Glynn's mill between two big flat stones like wheels with large holes in the middle. These were called mill querns and two of them are still to be seen outside Glynn's mill(Kilrush). The hand quern was only about the size of a barrow wheel.
   Stampy was the bread that was oftenest used. In Northern Ireland it was called "boxty bread".
   The reason for not baking enough wheat or oatmeal bread is that the people could not get so much wheat or oats at a time.

   

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   In making stampy, they would have a tin grater to scrape the potatoes. They would have the starch of the potatoes and mix flour with it. It is on a griddle they baked stampy. In kneeding the bread they used no milk in Lent but water instead. Only two or three

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary O' Driscoll

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilrush, Co. Clare

   Informant

   James Morrissey

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male