School: Sruth Nua
- Location:
- Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás de Brún
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Food in olden times
Oat-meal bread was the bread most eaten in this place long ago. It was baked on a griddle. Boiling water was used in making the cake. No soda was used in baking the cake but a cross was put on top of it to raise it. The griddle is set on a tripper it was baked lying down or against the griddle standing up
When cakes were made they were rolled over with a bread stick.
There was a wooden bread-board on which to make the cake called a losec
John Joe Coen,
Robeen, Hollymount, Co Mayo.
Got from Mrs Kate Coen, Robeen, Hollymount,
- Collector
- John Joe Coen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robeen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Coen
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Robeen, Co. Mayo
