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1. Old Story of Querns or Hand Mills (continued)

   

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   breakfast, and the woman of the house put down the pot and made a fine pot of stirabout which was eaten with a mug of buttermilk or sounds a liquid made from oats, steeped and soured. After all their work they had a comfortable breakfast at about half nine o' clock in the morning.

   

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2. How to Make Potato Bread

   

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   How to make potato-bread. This was told to me by Mrs Kiernan, Maullaghboy, who is now ninety years of age. This is the way people long ago made potato-bread. First they got potatoes and bruised them well with the bottom of a bottle, then they got a hand-ful of salt and mixed all up together, and made them into farrels. They then baked them on a grid iron or on the paws of the tonges which were left on a clean smokeless coal. When they would have it cooked it would be eaten with butter and sugar. They always used to put a little cross on it with a knife when they would be making it. This cross was made so that the cake would turn out good and

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Kiernan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   90

   Address

   Mullaghboy, Co. Leitrim