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School: Loch Measca

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Caherrobert, Co. Mayo
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Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0103, Page 374

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  1. Oaten Bread and Rhyme about Different Breads

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    The oaten bread was made of ground oats, milk, and salt.
    When they were baking the oaten bread they took all the fire out on the heart. Then they put a few cabbage leaves over the coals. After that they put the oaten bread on the cabbage and a few more cabbage leaves over the cake.
    Lastly they put coals over the cabbage leaves. It is said that the oaten bread was very sweet. People going to America always took oaten bread with them, as it was said to save them from sea sickness.
    This is rhyme about the different breads.
    Barley bread will do you good,
    Rye bread will do you no harm,
    Wheaten bread sweetens the blood,
    Oaten bread strengthens the arm.
    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
    Margaret Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyrourke, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Julia Margaret Coyne
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Ballyrourke, Co. Mayo