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School: Ball Áluinn (Balla) (roll number 1146)

Location:
Balla, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 198

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 198

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    mixing. Butter or fat is put on the pan or bastible and the flat cake is put in. When done on one side it is turned and done on the other.
    Bread was baked two or three times a week. Friday was one day on which a fair quantity was baked. Enough cakes used to be baked before Christmas to last until after twelveth day. Cakes were often exchanged at this time.
    There is no record of querns having been in use in the memory of any one in this parish. But they were in use at some time as part of one picked up locally is now preserved at the school. Others have been found and were broken. The bottom half that is preserved in this school.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Ó Maolanaigh
    Gender
    Male