School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)
- Location:
- Killavoggy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 033
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- In olden times the principal bread used in all households was oat-meal. The oats after being well dried was ground by hand machine called a quern(?). It was then wet with water and made into a dough then flattened into a square cake of a half inch thickness and slowly baked on a griddle. A propped flag was also used for baking purposes. Another bread much used was boxty. It was made by peeling well washed raw potatoes grating them on a coarse tin made for the purpose by a tiner and putting into clean white bag about the size of a coat pocket. They bag was squeezed until all the water drained away. The contents of the bag were then mixed with flour and boiled potatoes until it formed a paste that could be flattened into cake form. It was then baked in an oven well buttered and served with tea.
- Collector
- Rose Anne Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mary Anne Dolan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Sweetwood Little, Co. Leitrim
