School: Ring, Dalahasey (roll number 9111)
- Location:
- Ring Commons, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ní Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 69
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- (continued from previous page)when making "leven bread" is. First a large a large size dish is got and a little bit of wheaten meal and a tin-ful of sour butter milk and they are all mixed mixed toghether and it is left there in the Dish for a week and this is called the "leven". After the week is passed there is got another dish and in it is put a good portion of wheaten meal and a little supply of flour then the "leven" is mixed up with it and there is also a tin-ful of butter-milk or more if neaded is mixed through it and bread-soda is mixed through it.Then it is left in the dish and the dish is covered with a white cloth and put under the bed clothes. In the evening it is taken out of the bed and put on a big lasset and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dermotstown, Co. Dublin
