School: Moyrhee, Ruan

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   a quern. They were two stones and a hole in them and a handle on it and they used to grind the wheat them selves. They bake the bread on a griddle here around because it is easy to bake it. The thing they put the griddle on when they are baking is called a brand. It is a square piece of iron with four legs. They use a roller for flatning out the stampy and other cakes. The people make no stampy here around. The people here around put a cross on a cake so that it would bake well.

   

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   The people used to make the bread with wheat long ago. They used scutch the wheat. They used have a clean cloth spread on the floor of the barn and have two big boxes and two flat boards across from one box to the other and a round stone left down on them and they would be

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   Topics

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

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Christena Baker

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrowkeel Beg, Co. Clare