School: Stoneyford, Thomastown (roll number 3029)
- Location:
- Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Finghín Mac Íobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 128
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- Potato-cakes were made from potatoes flour, soda and new milk mixed together. The cakes were made on a 'losit' and baked on a griddle. The potato-cake took about an hour to bake.
Boxty bread was made with flour, soda, and sour milk. It was made on a losit and baked on a bastable. It took about half an-hour to bake. When half baked it was turned up side down and a hard crust formed on each side of it.
A currant cake was made for birthdays and threshing days, and when a meitheal used gather to dig potatoes the woman of the house baked a currant cake.
Boxty bread and a currant cake were made for a feast for Halloween night.
- Collector
- Michael Ragget
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lawcus, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Nicholas Ragget
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Lawcus, Co. Kilkenny
