School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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poured in to it and the collar is dipped in it.This starch makes the collar yellow after a while.
Starch.
They used to put two spoons of flour in to cold water and keep stirring until it is as thin as milk. Then throw it in to boiling water and it will thicken up and make the clothes as hard as frost.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
