Bread
CBÉS 0948
Leathanach 086
Potato cake, Boxty bread, and Oaten meal bread were eaten. Potato cakes were made with potatoes, flour, and salt. Oaten meal bread was made with oatmeal and salt. The vessel in which the bread was baked was called a pot-oven. Bread was made in front of the fire on cabbage leaves. The recipe for Boxty bread is wash and peel potatoes and put in one third of boiled potatoes grated. Put these in a linen bag a squeeze and put salt and flour with them. Bread was made every day. Marks were put on top of the cake to ornament it. The people used to make Boxty bread for Hallow E'en. Griddle bread was made too. Flour was not