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School: Leath-árdán

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Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 34

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  1. Making Bread Long Ago in this Locality

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    Long ago the people had not as much flour as they have now, therefore bread was different.
    They used to make boxty, potato cake and oat meal cake which is very hard.
    They used to make boxty of raw potatoes.
    They used peel the potatoes first and then grate them.
    Then they used squeeze the water of them.
    Then they used put them into a basin, and put the soda in it and milk and kned it.
    Next they put it down in a pan to bake.
    They used to make potato cake of boiled potatoes.
    They used "pound" the potatoes with the bottom of saucepan.
    Then they used to put the makings of the into a basin.
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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
    Teresa Canavan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockmaria or Addergoole, Co. Mayo