School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (C.), Carraig na Siúire
- Location:
- Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0655, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)eaten raw, and it was called the "Proapeen". There is a line of a song about it - "The quern quaint where they ground so sweet the healthy sweet Proapeen".A man named Tom Dunne of Curraghkiely, Co. Waterford has the remains of a quern still. It is in at the back of the fire in the hob.They grew the wheat at home but they did not grind it themselves at home. They sent it to a mill and they got it back ground. Then they mixed the wheat, salt and soda together with sour-milk and shaped the cake by rolling it with a bottle. If the people ran short of those two kinds of bread they made potato-cake. To make these they boiled the potatoes until they were very soft. Then they mixed a little salt and sour-milk with them. On a griddle they baked all the bread.At the present time people do not make potato cakes but they make oaten flour bread. They buy the flour and oaten meal in town. They make it with sour-milk, salt and soda. In an even or an oil stove it is baked.
- Collector
- Mary Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Park, Co. Waterford
