School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)
- Location:
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. Conception
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 104
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Bread
24th May, 1938.
Long ago the people used to grow two or three acres of oats and wheat for their own use. They got the oats ground into oat-meal and the wheat into whole-meal.
From the oat-meal they made oaten-bread, which was the most common bread used then. The way it was made was - oat meal was put in a basin and mixed with a teaspoonful of salt. Then it was wet with hot water and mixed again, after which it was taken out on a board and kneaded sufficiently well. Then it was baked on a grid-iron before a good turf fire.
Whole-meal bread and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Dawson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Carrickduff, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Dawson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Carrickduff, Co. Longford
