School: Thomastown Convent (roll number 16028)
- Location:
- Baile Mhic Andáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: An tSr M. Lelia
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- (continued from previous page)and salt were used to make oatmeal cake, while the ingredients of a wholemeal cake were wholemeal flour, soda, butter-milk and salt. The bread was baked everyday. A cross was made on the top of the cake to keep the crust from braking.
The vessel in which the bread was baked was called a bake-pot or a griddle. In the country when the baker's bread was not so easily procured on special occasions, such as when a visitor was expected a cream cake or a potatoe cake was made.
- Collector
- Mary Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Mhic Andáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr Woods
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Mhic Andáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
