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School: Ceathrú Mhór (roll number 16289)

Location:
Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Thomas F. O' Hara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 256

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    their dinner. They never used new milk with the potatoes but got all the butter they could off it. The butter was packed in ferkins and sold at the market.
    They had bread made from oat-meal at the next meal. Instead of tea they had a drink which was made from oat-meal and water. When the oat-meal was a few hours steeping the water was white and this drink was called "sugcan".
    The bread was made from oat-meal and water also. They cleaned the hearth-stone and left a leaf of cabbage on it, under the cake. Another leaf was placed over the cake while is was baking. This was called "caca ceslac(?)".
    The oat-meal which they used was made from oat, their own oats. Sometimes they ground it
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Ward
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doonty, Co. Mayo