School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 302
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- (continued from previous page)When they put it on they make a cross on it with a knife they made this cross on it to make the fadge harn quickly and to let air to it.
- Some of the people baked as much bread as done them for a week and some of them baked every day. The people baked their bread in an oven pot and some of them baked in a fire pan. The people put a lid on the oven pot and put coals on the lid.
One time when a woman was baking a scone for Easter she had a big cross for the top of the scone and when she took off the cross the sign of the cross was in the scone. - Some of the people baked as much bread that done them for a week or three days. And others did not. This bread was put by in a box and this was called boxty bread. The people in olden times made some kind of a word on the top of the bread to make(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Barney O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Sladran, Co. Donegal
