School: Gort Buidhe (roll number 14509)
- Location:
- Gortboy, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gilbert Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 153
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- How to make a Yellow Meal Cake or a cake of Yellow BuckGet a clean dish and into it put a couple of basins of yellow meal. Boil a kettle of spring water and pour it over the yellow meal. Mix up the meal and the water and make it into a fine thick mixture. Flatten it out then and cut it into squares.Get the griddle which was like the bottom of an oven but had two handles. Place it on the three legged stand near the fire and put some red coals under it until the griddle becomes fine and hot. Place the squares of yellow meal on the griddle and let it bake for half an hour. Take up the squares then, and split each one and put some butter between the crusts. When eaten hot with milk this bread was lovely. When cool it was as hard as a rock but the workmen ate it as they had good teeth. Often a poor labourer worked a whole day on a breakfast of skimmed milk and a square of yellow buck. People were so tired of the yellow buck that they preferred potatoes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Domhnall Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortboy, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Domhnall Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Gortboy, Co. Kerry
