School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

Location:
Timoleague, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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    usually for Sunday.
    The potatoes were boiled at first and then made in the shape of a cake and baked.
    People have a habit of making a currant cake for Sunday now-a-days.
    They also make a seed cake for the priest at a station, and they make sweet-cakes and a plum-pudding for Christmas
    The housewife makes a “báirigín breac” for Hallow'Een
    A cross is put on top of a cake before baking it, and is done so that the cake would bake properly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Síle Ní Clúmháin
    Gender
    Female