School: Ballinea (roll number 10426)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs Farrell
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- (continued from previous page)in houses in which there are children - make "brown" and white home made cakes.
The brown cake is made from a mixture of flour and whole-meal wet with buttermilk. A little salt and breadsoda are added and the cake is baked in a pot-oven with fire under the oven and on the lid.
The white cake is made from flour, salt, and breadsoda wet with buttermilk and baked in a pot-oven.Pancakes are made by putting flour, sugar, salt, soda and sometimes an egg into a bowl and mixing with buttermilk or newmilk into a thin batter.
This is left for a while in the bowl. Some fat-butter dripping or lard is put on a pan which is heated well.
The batter is poured on this(continues on next page)
