School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)

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1. Food of Long Ago

   

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   The people long ago used to eat oaten-meal bread whole meal bread boxty and potato bread. For November night usually they used have boxty and for Christmas night potato cakes. In a Iosad they used to make the bread and sometimes on the table. A Iosad was like a wooden dish two or three inches high. They used to bake the bread on a griddle and on a grid iron and also on a maide-árain. Oaten meal bread they used to bake on a grid iron and whole meal bread on a griddle. They used to also bake the oaten-meal bread standing by the fire against two sticks standing together and another at the back to hold them up the shape of an A The grid iron was a square article having two side bars and ten cross ones and four legs under it.

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Búrca

   Gender

   Female