My mother makes bread at home in the following way. First she gets a basin then flour, soda, some salt and sugar and buttermilk. She mixes the flour a little soda some salt and sugar in the basin. When she has them well mixed she pours in sufficient buttermilk. to make all into dough. She then shapes it round and puts it in the oven to bake. She puts coals over it to help it to bake. Sometimes she puts currants and raisins in it. Sometimes she puts a cross on it. Some people say that this is put on to keep the devil out. This bread is called home-made bread and sometimes it is called soda-bread.
Many a farmer's wife makes oaten bread in this locality. It is made in the following way. Some oaten meal is got and mixed with warm water and salt until it is a kind of dough. It is then made the shape of a square and left up against a bread iron in front

BreadIn olden times the chief bread used was soda bread, oaten bread, boxty and potato cake. The oatmeal for the oaten bread was obtained from oats, grown in the district. There was a mill in Castlemore to which the people took the oats to be made into meal.
The ingredients used in making soda bread are flour, bread-soda, salt and butter-milk. The flour, bread-soda and salt are first well mixed. The butter-milk is then added. Cuts are put on the top of the cake to prevent it from cracking. It is baked in a hot oven.
The ingredients used in making oaten bread are oatmeal, salt and sometimes sugar. Water is used when kneading. It is baked against a hot lid or a stone placed in front of the fire.
In making boxty potatoes, flour and salt were used. The potatoes were first peeled. They were then scraped into a basin with a scraper. When the water was strained away flour and salt were mixed. Sometimes a little milk and boiled potatoes were added. It was then shaped into cakes which were baked in a well greased pan.

The bread used is called soda cake which is made from flour and sour milk and bread soda. We got the oats ground in the mill into meal. We some times have oaten cake. The meal is wet with water and put baking before the fire. This is the way to make a soda cake get a basin and put flour and soda and sour milk in it and mix it and then put it in the oven and put coals under and over it and leave it there until it is baked.

Bread is the staff of life, and only for it, we could not live. There are different ways, in which bread can be made, such as, in a pot oven, a pan, or standing before the fire.
There are different kinds of bread currant, treacle, soda, oatmeal, and boxty. Currant bread is made by putting flour in a basin, then adding, soda, salt, sugar, baking powder, eggs, butter, and currants. Then all the ingredients are

I hear an old person say that people long ago could cure several ailments without consulting Doctors or Chemists, for example if they had a toothache they used rub soot or salt to the gums. If there was a hole in the sore tooth they used pack it with bread soda. If a person got a burn long ago, bread-soda was used at first to keep the air from it but if the skin peeled off, then sweet oil

The bread was made from wheat in olden times. The wheat was ground in Millstreet. It is from that mill the town got its name. The different kinds of bread were wheaten bread, potato cake and ciste baise. The wheaten bread was made from wheaten flour soda and sour milk and it was baked in a bastable. The potato cake was made from flour, soda, milk, and mashed potatoes. The "císte baise" was made by rolling the dough in the palms of the hands and this was baked on a griddle.

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Bread in the local district in former times was made principally from wheat. Some of this wheat was grown on the local farms but the greater amount of it was brought from foreign countries. There were three different kinds of bread made, namely Potato Cake, Stampy and the ordinary soda bread. Potato cake was made by kneading a little flour with potatoes and water with a little milk. Stampy was made of flour and water and when baked was of a flat nature. The soda cake contained a mixture of flour, bread soda and fermented sour milk and baked in a bastable. After the dough was kneaded and before being placed in the bastable two insertions were made with a knife in the shape of a cross so that the heat would go through the cuttings. Except where there were large families the bread was usually baked three times a week.
On festive occasions a special cake was baked of such ingredients as flour, eggs, sour cream and a little sugar.
Griddle bread was so called because it was baked on a griddle and made of flour and water. It resembled a large size biscuit similar to Stampy cake already mentioned.

Water that oaten-meal was steeped in water was called flummery, and some salt and baking soda added. Oaten-bread that was to keep long was made very thin and no salt or soda put in it. This was made for people going on a long journey. The old people only made the bread once a week. They used to put a cross on top of the cake to keep it from cracking and they pressed a cup on the middle of it.

The kinds of bread that were made in olden times were wheaten and oaten, bread and boxty bread. The people grew the wheat and oats themselves. They did not make flour themselves. It came from the local mills. The things for making the wheaten bread were wheaten meal, flour, salt, and bread soda. The oaten bread was made of oaten meal, salt and bread soda. The boxty bread was made of potatoes, salt, flour and breadsoda. Milk was

In olden times there were querns in all houses and the people used to grind their own corn. There were different kinds of bread made - oaten-bread, wheaten-bread, flour-bread, potato-bread and boxty-bread. Oaten-bread was made by mixing some oaten meal and a tea-spoon of salt together, adding water and kneading on the bread-board, then baking on a griddle. Wheaten-bread was made by mixing wheaten meal, salt, and bread soda and butter-milk together, kneading on the bread-board and then baking in an oven. Flour-bread was made by mixing flour, soda, salt and butter-milk together, then kneading on the bread-board and baking in an oven. Potato-bread was made by mixing bruised potatoes, flour and salt together and by

Long ago in Ireland there was no bread made like what is made nowadays. It was all oaten bread that the people used to make it and it was made like this. They used to get some oaten-meal and mix bread-soda and salt through it and then they used to wet it with water. The kinds of bread that the people make nowadays are loaf-bread which the baker makes, soda-bread, brown-bread, and scones, and they also make rasp, potato-cake and pancakes. The way they make pancakes is, they get a baisin and put flour, bread

People make different kinds of bread in Ireland. They make soda-bread like this. Put enough of flour in a baisin as will make a cake, then put some bread-soda into the baisin and put buttermilk into the baisin as well, they stir the three together until the cake is made, then they make the Sign of the Cross on it and put in on a cake-tin and put it in the oven. Brown bread is made like this but instead of white flour they use brown flour. After half an hour the cake will be baked and the woman will be able to take it out and leave it to

Wheat and oats were grown locally People heard of querns being used in the district. The kinds of bread that were made was potato-cake and oaten-meal bread. The ingredients used for potato-cake were potatoes and flour and soda and salt. Oaten-meal bread was made from oaten-meal and soda and salt. Milk or water was used in kneading. There was enough bread made for a week. The bread was baked on a griddle. Bread was not baked before the fire.

In olden times people made wheaten, oaten or barley bread. Flour was and still is ground locally. Some of the older inhabitants of this district remember querns.
The ingredients used in making wholemeal bread were wholemeal, salt, soda and milk. In making barley bread, barley meal, salt, soda and milk were used. Some times if milk was not plentiful water was

The chief bread used in the country is soda bread, boxty bread, oatmeal bread and potatoe bread. The way to make boxty bread is to get potatoes and peel them and grate them, and then ring them through a cloth. Then boiled potatoes are bruised through them, and a few handfuls of flour are added. Then they are put on the fire and boiled for about an hour.
Then they are taken out. They are called dumplings. The way to make potatoe bread is to get boiled potatoes and bruise them up, and add some flour, and then they are made into cakes. They are fit for use then.
Oatmeal bread is made entirely from oatmeal, soft water and sugar Then it is left along the fire to bake.
The way to make soda bread is with flour, bacon, soda, salt and

is mixed in a basin with soda and salt and usually wet with buttermilk and made on similar lines as the soda cake of the present day, baked in an oven but takes longer than the foreign flour bread. It too was used extensively in the last five years though the labouring classes refuse to take it in the farmers houses since they got the "Dole". Of course no one would eat this bread twenty years ago but necessity is the mother of invention

Bread.
Some of the kinds of bread are oatmeal bread, soda bread, boxty, etc. When one is baking soda bread she first gets the flour and puts in some soda and salt she might beat up an egg and put it into it or some sugar then she usually gets butter-milk and mixes it well in a dish. After that she turns it out on a baking board and puts it into shape, finally she puts it into a pot oven which hangs across the fire. some red hot coals are put on top of the lid of the oven so that each side will bake properly.
There is bread called streaky that is only half baked. Boxty is usually baked with raw and boiled potatoes with some flour mixed through them. The way my auntie used to make boxty is as follows, At night she used to (clas) clean the hearth well and put paper on the grate put the cake on the paper, put the pot oven across it the fire was built all round the oven, and she would have it baked in the morning. Plenty of turf or coal is needed when one is baking bread.
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a cloth and squeeze it until all the liquid is drawn out of it. Throw the dry stuff into the bread pan and mix a little pinch of salt and soda and flour with it. Bake in a griddle and spread out until very thin.
The liquid could also be used by mixing flour and salt and soda with it but there should only be a little pinch of each mixed with with it, and a little bit of butter. Cook like pancakes.
Meal Bread is made of half a quantity of flour and half a quantity of (flour) meal mixed together, with a pinch of salt & soda. Make like ordinary bread. Cook in a griddle and cut into four quarters and if liked cut each quarter into two again. Called "pack".

Bread Soda.Bread soda is a cure for heart burn. You get water and bread soda and drink it. this is supposed to be a cure for heartburn.
General cure here.

The people long ago had three meals a day the breakfast the dinner and the supper. The breakfast was between five and six A.M often, the dinner about twelve noon. Farmers worked in the morning before they got theire breakfast. The food for the breakfast was porridge, for the dinner, potatoes, cabbage and white bacon, and for the supper potatoes and buttermilk. They generally sat arround the table in the table in the centre of the floor. Oaten, soda and wheaten bread was the bread eaten. Soda bread was made with, flour, milk and soda Salted bacon was the meat eaten. It was not eaten often. Fish was not eaten except in fishing centres. Cabbage, turnips, onions and potatoes were the vegetables eaten. Food was not eaten, late at night. On Christmas Day a plum pudding was eaten, on Easter Sunday an egg was eaten. Tea was first used about eighty years ago. Porridngers , mugs and wooden noggans were used