School: Wilson N.S. (roll number 16138)
- Location:
- Raphoe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: A.J.M. Thompson
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- (continued from previous page)and bake them with a little flour. You then spread it on the "baking-board", and cut it in squares and fry it.
Mrs Crawford told me how to make "Rantantina" bread. She makes it at Hallowe'en. She boils a pot of potatoes and when the skins were taken of them, they were mashed up in oaten-meal, and milk. It was then rolled in oaten-meal till it was hard. Then she put it up against the griddle and hardened.
Mother told me of a few ovens, she baked the bread with. One was a pot-oven. This oven had three feet, and you could either put it on the hearth, with a turf fire under it, and a fire on the lid. Or you could put it on the crook with a fire on top and one below it. She said a "Bastable" oven was built in a the side of the fire with a fire under it. A "bacus", is a piece of flat thin iron. - Around the fire in winter some nights I hear stories and this one of the many I heard. It was about an old man who was a shoe-maker,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jim Chambers
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Raphoe, Co. Donegal
- Collector
- Jim Galbraith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Donegal