School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)
- Location:
- Coill an Bhogaigh, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seán de Faoite
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- (continued from previous page)generally made at Christmas. Boxty was made at weddings.
- The ingredients used in boxty-bread are raw potatoes and boiled potatoes, salt, and a little flour. First they were boiled in a pot and then they were peeled and mashed. Then the raw potatoes were peeled and grated in a basin with a grater. Then they were squeezed in a boxty-bag and the water all taken from them. They were then mixed with the mashed ones and kneaded to a dough. The salt was added in the kneading and also the flour. It was then flattened out in cakes about half inch thick and baked in a greased oven. Potato-cake was made with boiled potatoes peeled and mashed some salt and flour and carrawayseed was then added. It to was mixed to a dough and flattened into cakes of the same thickness. Then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Catherine Veronica Keaveny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corr an Tí Móir, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Honoria Keaveny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Corr an Tí Móir, Co. Liatroma