School: Scoil Naomh Colmcille, Kilmacrennan (roll number 17036)
- Location:
- Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 42
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- My father has explained to me the way boxty bread was made when he was a boy.A ‘grater’ is required which can be made from a piece of ordinary tin by punching holes in it. This provides a rough surface on which to “pulp” the potato.Three or four stone of potatoes are cleanly washed for the purpose.At night the ‘bean a wife’ takes a large tub and places it in the middle of the floor and sits down to her work. She rubs the potato on the ‘grater’ and the fine pulp which falls through the holes is for use.The liquid is then squeezed out of the pulp with a piece of cloth. It is then emptied on a table and a little flour is added and mixed.The cake is rolled out very flat and hardened on a griddle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charlie Mc Fadden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loch Fearna, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Hugh Mc Fadden
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Loch Fearna, Co. Donegal
