School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Monadarragh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 107
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- (continued from previous page)seed, salt. Mix all together with sweet milk. Warm and grease an oven, put mixture in it and bake for an hour or more according to the size of loaf"
- "Peel and grate some raw potatoes. Put in a cloth and wring water out of them. Peel and bruise some boiled potatoes. Mix them with grated ones. Add a little flour, a pinch of salt, sweet milk and some of the starch that runs off water that was wrung out of potatoes. Mix all well and make into a stiff dough. Make little cakes out of this. Drop into boiling water and boil for an hour.
- Informant
- Mrs Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cam, Co. Longford
