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   and bake them with a little flour. You then spread it on the "baking-board", and cut it in squares and fry it.
   Mrs Crawford told me how to make "Rantantina" bread. She makes it at Hallowe'en. She boils a pot of potatoes and when the skins were taken of them, they were mashed up in oaten-meal, and milk. It was then rolled in oaten-meal till it was hard. Then she put it up against the griddle and hardened.
   Mother told me of a few ovens, she baked the bread with. One was a pot-oven. This oven had three feet, and you could either put it on the hearth, with a turf fire under it, and a fire on the lid. Or you could put it on the crook with a fire on top and one below it. She said a "Bastable" oven was built in a the side of the fire with a fire under it. A "bacus", is a piece of flat thin iron.

   

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   Around the fire in winter some nights I hear stories and this one of the many I heard. It was about an old man who was a shoe-maker,

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jim Chambers

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Raphoe, Co. Donegal

   Collector

   Jim Galbraith

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Dromore, Co. Donegal