School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)The dough was then made into cakes in which salt was used and then baked on a griddle.
The cake was solid and dark in colour when it was baked.
Griddle Bread
Griddle bread was made by mixing equal quantities of oatmeal and flour with a little salt and soda. This was mixed with milk and baked on a griddle.
- In olden times people only ate three meals a day. For their breakfast they ate porridge, for their dinner potatoes, which they ate again at night. They worked some hours in the morning before eating anything. Milk was drunk because they had no tea as they have nowadays. Sometimes they mixed water and oatmeal together and made a very wholesome drink.
Sometimes they eat round the table and at other times they sat round a "scib" of potatoes which was placed on the floor. Oaten-bread was eaten. Meat was not eaten. There were special foods eaten on certain feastdays such as "Easter Sunday" "St Martins(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Croghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bookalagh, Co. Galway
