School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes. She grates the potatoes and then takes the starch out of them. She boils the starchy part of the potatoes for about five minutes. Then it is ready to starch the clothes.Starch made out of cornflour. The cornflour is mixed with cold water to blend it. It is stirred then and boiling water is poured on it until it thickens. Cold water is added to it then to thin it down for the clothes.
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- Collector
- Annie Kerrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal