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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 495

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    hammer. We make holes in the tin. We get big potatoes and take the skin off them.
    Then we scrape the potatoes one by one into a baisin. When that is done, we put salt, soda and then we nearly thicken it with flour. We heat a pan and put butter on it we put down some of the boxty on the pan. We leave it there until it is baked.
    We take it up, and put some more butter on it. That's the way we make the boxty. Some people in this district put cold boiled potatoes with the boxty.
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    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
    Ita Killeen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Killeen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo