School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
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- Bread 23-6-1938The kind of bread the people used to make in olden times was boxty bread, oaten-bread, and wheaten-bread. They used to also make potato-cake.The people long ago made their own flour themselves with a hand quern in their own home. Milk was used generally for making the bread.The people used to bake bread almost every day. A cross was cut on the cake when made, t'was a kind of an old custom among the people cutting the cross on the cake. The bread was baked in a pot-oven. Bread was often baked in the front of the fire standing against a support. Griddle bread was also made. People used to make pan-cakes on special occasions, such as(continues on next page)
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