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1. Bread

   

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   The bread made in olden times was principally made of yellow meal with boiling water. It was mixed with a wooden spoon and afterwards kneaded with a flat saucepan until it got cool. Then it was made into a flat cake, with the hands, cut in squares, and baked on a griddle over the fire.

   Flour was not made locally. People remember querns begin used in the district. The querns were two round stones, and each of them was about 2 1/2 ins wide and 18 ins high and there was an axle in the centre and a handle to twist. They used to put the oats down a hole in the centre, and the oats was crushed that way, and then they used to sieve the oats and carry it to a grinding mill to be ground into oatmeal.

   There was a grinding mill in Ballahantourigh owned by a man named Lawlor. It was built on John O'Connor's farm near the river, as it was by means of water it was driven.

   The other kinds of bread that were made were potato cake, and Stampy cake. The poorer people made stampy of black potatoes, and rotten potatoes. They used to peel the potatoes and cut them in slices, and mix them with a little flour and put them on a flag stone near the fire to bake. They

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