School: An Clochán (roll number 7777)
- Location:
- Na Clochánaí, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Liam Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 030
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The meal was not ready for use after being crushed. They had had to seive it to seperate the fine from the coarse. They made the bread with the fine meal. They baked the cakes on griddles. They baked the oat-meal cakes on a round, flat, pan without a rim. When a cake was baking on this it was kept slant ways before the fire by means of a sod or two of turf.
They made a lot of kinds of bread. They make cakes which were called "Bocesti." It was made with raw potatoes and meal. They made it in this way. First, they got the potatoes and peeled them. Next, they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Delia Rielly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chora Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Thomas Rielly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Chora Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
