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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 423

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    the top of the cake. The oatmeal bread was baked on a grid iron. Oaten meal bread was generally fried before eaten. A potato cake was made with boiled potatoes and flour, wet with milk and baked on a griddle.
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    Long ago the people used to make oaten bread and beer bread. The oaten bread was made on the plain ground oaten meal mixed with lukewarm water. It was baked before the fire on a loop on its edge. When one side was baked it was turned to let the other side bake also. Long ago when people would be going to America they would bring oaten
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    Topics
    1. táirgí
      1. táirgí bia (~3,601)
        1. arán (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Donegan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr William Donegan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 48
    Address
    Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí