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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 496

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    Potato cakes are used in this district as well as boxty. When making a potato cake we would not want a scraper. When making some we get a basin of boiled potatoes, we pell them. We bruize them together.
    When they are well bruised we put salt and some flour on them. Then we bruise them together again, we make them into the form of a cake. Then we make four quarters of the cake. We put butter on the pan and when
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    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