School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)
- Location:
- Stradbally, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSr. Ióseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0649, Page 92
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- (continued from previous page)all kinds of Bread but in Winter time when milk was scarce Barm was resorted to as a substitute. The bread was made every day and sometimes twice a day. Bread baked on a griddle was shaped flat and cut into eight parts and each of these parts was called a pointer. Bread baked on an oven pot was marked with a cross. On a griddle there was no cover. It was a flat circular utensil with handles on either side of it. The mark on the ovenpot bread stood for the cross and for a blessing on the bread. The mark on the griddle bread had something to do with the Mariners Compass.
- Collector
- Maureen Corbett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stradbally, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr Stephens
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
