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School: Lanesboro

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Lanesborough, Co. Longford
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E. Ó Reachtagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0752, Page 289

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    “Long ago people used to bake bread nearly the same as nowadays.”

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    Long ago people used to bake bread nearly the same as nowadays
    The most kind of bread they used to eat was, soda bread, wheaten bread oaten bread, potato buns, boxty and stampy which is called paste cakes nowadays. Stampy was wet with milk. Soda bread was wet with buttermilk. Wheaten was wet with milk. The people long ago used to bake every day. They used to bake the bread the day before they would eat it. They used to mix the bread on a losaid which are called bread boards nowaday.
    Potato cake was
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phyllis Mc Cann
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lanesborough, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mr Ned Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Lanesborough, Co. Longford