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School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)

Location:
Errew, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Brígid Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090E, Page 08_019

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    In olden times the kind of bread made was Oat-meal bread and sometimes Yellow-meal bread. In olden times the poor people used to make potato cakes and Oat-meal cakes and Boxty cakes and the rich people used to make bread from flour. The Boxty cake was bake from raw potatoes scraped by a scraper and mixed with milk and baked in the pan. The potato cake was made from potatoes and flour and butter milk and baked on the gred-iron. The Oat-Meal cake was made from water and baked on a flag. In olden times marks were
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora O' Grady
    Gender
    Female