School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Payne
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- The Oaten Cakes.
The oaten cakes were made in olden times but are not used much nowadays. Plain white bread and the wheaten brown bread are used now with bakers bread. When we have no other kind of bread in the house we get the bakers bread which is not as nourishing at all. The oaten cakes is better than wheaten bread. In the oaten cake now there is not much flour and in olden times none at all was put in.
The oaten cake is made on the griddle or on the pan. When the farmers long ago used to go out to the farm to work they would take a big piece of oaten cake and put it in their pocket and it would do them until they would be coming home again. It was very sustaining so they would not want to come home for their dinner or tea that day then. The oaten cake was made with meal and water. It was made very thin and very hard. Betty Payne great grandmother made it. She made it in the shape of a triangle. It would be cooked in a pot oven, griddle or in the baking oven.
2.12.38. Joan Moran age 12.
- Collector
- Joan Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
