School: Swords (C.) (roll number 7339)
- Location:
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Shortall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0788, Page 132
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- The bread most frequently eaten in Swords long ago, was yellow meal, wheaten meal, and brown bread, which was made from the wheat and meal grown locally.The people mixed the dough with buttermilk and if this was scarce they used water, as the people were too poor to buy milk unless they had a cow of their own.The bread was made on a griddle or in a pot oven and some of these customs are carried down to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- North Street, Co. Dublin
