School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 226
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- Boxty is much used in the district. It is made in the following manner:-
Ingredients:-
12 raw potatoes,
6 cooked potatoes,,
1 teaspoonful salt,
1 cupful flour,
Method: Grate the raw potatoes into a basin, place the grated potatoes in a clean cloth, squeeze out all the water. To the grated raw potatoes add 6 pounded cooked potatoes, one teaspoonful salt, and one cupful flour. Mix all together. Make into cakes. Put into a pot of boiling water. Boil for an hour. Can then be eaten hot with butter or when cold the cakes can be fried in butter and served with butter.
- Collector
- Mary Corrstine
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Philomena O Kelly
- Gender
- Female
