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School: Askeaton (C.) (roll number 2040)

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Askeaton, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 230

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    (continued from previous page)
    was converted into starch for collers shirts and so forth.
    The potato cakes is made from boiled pealed potatoes, they are broked up into pulp with a little flour added and a little salt, and some butter.
    All are mixed together and when baked, it is generally used hot.
    Oaten-meal bread is made from the hard grain. It is baked in a griddle, and is very sustaining and very nurishing.
    The people in olden times used make their own flour, as they had hand Quarns for the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Askeaton, Co. Limerick