School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)for the breakfast in the morning.Oaten cake is made out of oat meal and salt and wet with boiling water and cooked on a grid-iron in front of the fire
- When we are going to make sowans we steep oat meal and seeds in hot water and then we strain it.
- “Barmbread” is made with “barm” and the “barm” is made with salt and boiled potatoes, and soft water and a little flour, then it is left to set and then baked like ordinary bread.
- Collector
- Ernest Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr J. Hilliard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Drumawark, Co. Donegal
