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  1. Local Cures - Jaundice

    CBÉS 0773

    Page 039

    Bread-soda in lemon drink and bread-soda in water
  2. Bread

    CBÉS 0403

    Page 363

    The kind of bread that was made in olden times was made with water. Now it is made with sour milk. They used not use any soda or salt long ago. The kind of bread that was made long ago was wheaten bread, oaten bread, Barley bread, and brown bread. Flour was not made locally in the district. The people did not remember querns or grind stones being used. They did not hear of such things being used. The different kinds of bread that were made were potato cake, boxty bread, apple pie, rhubarb pie, Currant cake, and mixed bread. Potato cake is made of potatoes, milk, soda, salt, and flour. Oaten meal bread is made of oats, milk, soda, and salt. Apple pie is made of apples, flour, soda, and salt. Rhubarb pie is made of rhubarb, milk, soda, flour and salt. Currant cake is made of currants, milk, salt, flour, and soda. Mixed bread is made of meal, flour, salt, soda, and milk. It was milk and water they used knead it with.
  3. Bread

    CBÉS 0403

    Page 361

    The people long ago had a different way for making bread than nowadays. The people can remember to have querns in use. The following kinds of bread are mixed bread, made from flour, meal, soda, salt and milk. Flour bread is made from flour, soda, salt and milk. Barley bread is made from barley, flour, soda and milk. Oaten meal bread is made from meal, soda, salt and milk. Stampy is made from raw potatoes, flour and milk. Potato cake is made from potatoes, milk and soda. They used use milk for kneeding. The people used bake the bread one day every week and it would do them for the rest of the week. The bread used not be cut in any shape. The bread used be baked on a griddle the same as now. The griddle was made of iron. They used bake the cakes in a pot.
  4. Baking of Bread

    CBÉS 1113

    Page 334

    Bread is baked with flour, buttermilk, a small quantities of soda and salt. We mixed soda and salt through it. Seldom we buy bread from the Bakers. The commonest bread is soda bread, oat bread, currant bread and Indian bread. Soda bread is baked with flour and soda and salt is mixed throught it.
    Indian bread is baked the same
  5. Bread-Making

    CBÉS 0271C

    Page 14_042

    meal bread was made of oatmeal and water and bread soda and baked in a griddle.
  6. Bread

    CBÉS 1006

    Page 352

    Wheaten bread is made from wheaten meal, buttermilk salt and soda mixed together, after the cake is kneaded it is put into an oven and hung on the fire. Soda bread is made from flour salt and soda mixed with buttermilk when the cake is kneaded it is put into a hot oven and hung over the fire. Milk is added when kneading bread. People would make enough bread that would do for two or three days. Oaten meal bread is made from oaten meal mixed with butter milk, salt and soda. Flour was not made locally. Potatoe cake was made from boiled potatoes mixed with flour and salt and made into a cake about one sixth of an inch thick and baked on a pan. Oaten bread is baked in a shallow tin a little tin
  7. Bread

    CBÉS 0004

    Page 331

    The bread which nearly all people use is soda bread which is made from butter milk, flour and soda. Brown bread is also used which is made from Whole -meal, butter-milk and soda. Ginger bread made from flour, milk, sugar and bread-soda and Ginger. Pancakes which are made from eggs, flour, milk, and a pinch of salt. When they are made they are put on a frying pan and cooked until brown. Potato cakes are made from mashed potatoes a little milk, flour and baking Powder. When ready they are baked on a greased and heated griddle.
    The people long ago used eat wheaten bread made from wheat. They were very fond of potato cakes also. The flour they used have had a very dark colour. The people were very healthy then because they used eat the crusts of the bread as well as the rest of the cake. They had hardly ever any toothaches. They didn't like sweet cakes. They used eat cakes made from bran.
  8. Bread

    CBÉS 0953

    Page 266

    We make many kinds of bread at home namely, soda bread, pancakes, potatoe bread oat meal bread and boxty bread, Soda bread is made as follows: First you get flour and soda and salt and next mix it up well. Then you wet it with buttermilk or skim. You warm the pan and then put on the cake and bake it and let it cool for a while and then you eat it to your tea: Pancakes are made from flour, soda, salt, sweet-milk and a egg and sugar. The pan is greased and the pancakes are put on it and baked. Potatoe cake is made from potatoes and flour. You boil the potatoes and slice them. Then they are mixed and beaten well with flour. You put salt and a little milk in the mixture and flatten it out. After that you grease the pan and put the cake on it. Then you cut it in to divisions and bake it. Oat meal bread is made with oat meal and hot water and a little salt. These are mixed up and beaten well and flattened it out. You put the griddle beside the fire and leave the potatoe cake on it and cut it in parts and bake it.
    Boxty bread is made from raw potatoes
  9. Bread

    CBÉS 0014

    Page 098

    that is the side they use. First potatoes are got and cleaned and then scraped and then flour is mixed and bread soda through it and baked it is done. Potatoe cake is made by boiling potatoe's and then they are pelled and they are broken and flour and bread soda is mixed through it and then it is baked. Slap jack is made in a basin or a mug, it is made like a soda cake. Otean bread is made with meal, this is how it is made meal and some sugar is put in a basin and hot water is applied. Then it is cut in four quarters and meal rubbed on it. Then it is put on the grid iorn or the pan and when it is baked it is finished with. Sometimes a small cake is left near a kettle or some support. Soda bread is made with flour and bread soda butter milk, and then they are all mixed and put in the even and a cross put on it and then the lid is put on it and fire put over it and under it. It is said that the cross is put on it, so it would rise up.
  10. Bread

    CBÉS 0403

    Page 362

    Long ago people always ate mixed bread and never flour bread. This is the way they made it; first of all they got about a cup of flour and the rest meal and then they boiled water and mixed the whole thing together and that was the kind of bread they used long ago. Nowdays they get flour, salt, soda and thick milk for a plain flour cake. Bread was always made from wheat. There were no such things as mills in the olden times but things called querns. Nowdays people make flour bread, potatoe cake, stampy bread, currant bread, apple cake, rhubarb bread, and oat meal bread. Potato cake is made from potatoes, milk and salt. Currant bread is made from currants, flour, salt, soda, milk, spice, and treacle, apple cake is made from apples, flour, salt, soda, and sugar. Rhubarb cake is made from the same only there is no apples in it but rhubarb. Some times bread used be made for a week and more.
  11. Local Cures - Cure for Burns

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 192

    Rub a pince of bread soda on them, and it will stop them from blistering.
  12. Cures - Gripe

    CBÉS 0717

    Page 148

    The cure for gripe is a spoon of bread soda and a cup of butter milk.
  13. Bread

    CBÉS 0758

    Page 040

    The kinds of bread used here fifty years ago were soda - cake, oaten - cake, potato - cake, pancake and boxty. The soda cake was made by mixing bread-soda with flour, wetting with buttermilk kneading and baking in a pot - oven with turf - coals under and on the lid. Oaten cake was made by adding a little salt to oatmeal, wetting with warm water, kneading, flattening out thin and baking over turf - coals, on a griddle or standing up to a bread-stick in front of the fire. The griddle was a flat iron plate, about 1 foot wide, with square handles on opposite sides. The bread stick was usually a forked stick with three legs, but some were of iron, an upright semicircular iron against which the cake rested, a sheet - iron base on which the cake stood, and an iron strut at the back. Potato - cake was
  14. Bread

    CBÉS 1113

    Page 559

    Bread was made from wheat and oats grown locally. There were different kinds of bread made, oaten bread, potato bread, and soda bread. Oaten bread was made with oat meal, and boiling water, and salt, and was baked in front of the fire against a gridiron. Potato bread was made with potatoes and flour and was rolled out with a rolling pin, it was cut into farls, it was then baked on the fire on a frying pan. Soda bread was baked with flour, soda, salt, and buttermilk, it was then baked on a frying pan on the fire. There was as much bread baked at one time as
  15. Bread

    CBÉS 0202

    Page 056

    baked in a oven which is hung on the fire. There was other bread called soda bread. It was made from flour and mixed with soda. It only was at Xmas and feast days, oat-meal bread was mostly used.
  16. Bread

    CBÉS 0967

    Page 370

    Bread was made from oats and wheat. Flour used to be made locally. Grindstones used to be used for grinding meal. The bread made was soda cake, boxty, potatoe cake, oatmeal bread and pancakes. The gradients used were flour, salt soda and currants. Milk was used when kneading. Bread was made every day. People used to put a cross on the cake.
  17. Bread

    CBÉS 0979

    Page 136

    obtained from home-grown wheat. This flour is mixed in a basin with buttermilk and a little soda is added. Soda bread is made in the same way as wheaten bread, the only difference being that the flour used is obtained from foreign wheat. On special occasions, such as Christmas times, currants, raisins and carraway seed are adden to the ingredients when making bread. The amount of bread necessary for the day is usually made on the preceding night.
  18. Bread

    CBÉS 1005

    Page 394

    Then they would put them in a flour bag and wring the water out of them. Then they would mix flour and salt through them and put it on the griddle till it was baked.
    This bread was made every day because no soda bread was made unless at Christmas.
    When a cow calved "beasting" pancakes were made and are made yet. On Shrove Tuesday pancakes were always made.
    These three breads are seldom made now and if they are at self it is only for a novelty.
    Now my mother makes two kinds of bread, soda bread and wheaten bread. When making soda bread she puts nothing only flour and some soda and salt in the basin. Then she pours buttermilk in, and mixes it. She puts it out on a bread board
  19. Bread

    CBÉS 0004

    Page 330

    There are a great many kinds of different breads used by the people here. The soda-bread the brown bread the loaf bread and the pancake. The soda-bread is made from soda. The brown bread is made from whole-meal, butter, milk and baking powder. The old people were very fond of potatoes cakes. They used make them from potatoes and flour.
    During the famine the people had no bread to eat. They used live on herbs and before the potatoes had grown they pulled the sets from the ground and eat them.
  20. Arán

    CBÉS 0655

    Page 339

    on a griddle.
    Currant bread was baked for Christmas and other special occasions. It was made of flour, soda, cream and sugar. Crosses were put on the top to decorate it. A potato cake was made from boiled potatoes and flour mixed with sour-milk, salt and bread-soda and baked on a griddle.
    The bread that is in use today is different to that of long ago. It is made from flour, wholemeal or bran. It is baked in an oil stove or in an oven in special baking tins. It is mixed with sour-milk, bread-soda, eggs, butter, sugar and salt. People make all kinds of fancy cakes. They put currants, raisins, sultanas and they put icing on them.