School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 200
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- Jean White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Bell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Mondooey Middle, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Colhoun
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- The first milk from a newly-calved cow was called the beestins. This was sometimes boiled and eaten, or made into beestin cheese. Beestin cheese was made by putting the milk in a dish or pot and heating it very slowly, until it resembles thick custard. It was then cut in slices and eaten with oatcake.
- The oatmeal was made either into porridge (called stirabout or broghan) or into oatcake.
The oatcake was mixed with warm water and baked into very thin cakes which were baked on a bread iron before the fire. They were baked very slowly and were very hard. Very often they were used as spoons to sup poundies with.
