School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 160
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- (continued from previous page)eighteen gallons he boiled the calf and every Monday he sold soup to the people round him or anyone who wanted it.
They only took tea once a week and that was on Sunday, it was the tea leaves they took and they gave the water off it to the pigs.
The bread they ate was the boxty loaf was they grated raw potatoes squeezed it in a flour bag when they had it grated (raw) to take water out of it. They made it from half raw and half boiled potatoes, they mixed the to together put some salt in it and dried it up with flour, it was at night they made this. They brushed over the fire put a cabbage leaf the red put down the cake on that and turned a pot over the cake and left it there all night.
It was black flour they had long ago, because it was whole meal flour(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
