School: Lanesboro
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0752, Page 319
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“The kind of bread they used in olden times was Oaten bread and Potato cake...”
(continued from previous page)Oaten bread with oaten meal and water and then they used to bake it against a stool in front of the fire they used to leave it baked for a day and then they used to eat it with milk. Then they used to make Potato bread with potatoes and flour and salt and soda and bake it on a griddle. They used to bake in olden times twice a day They used to make their own barm from meal-seeds steeped in a crock of water and leave it until it would sour and then wet the bread with it. They made wheaten bread also, they made no soda bread. Oaten bread was mostly the kind of bread used
Collected by
Betty Gibband
Clonflower
Lanesboro
- Collector
- Betty Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Tom Mullooly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford