School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)spread it on a frying pan, and let it cook for about twenty minutes over the fire. When it was cooked the people would cut it into little squares, and they would eat it while it was hot.Given by Mrs Doherty (age 79), Carva, Linsfort, Buncranna
To Brigid Moran, Carva, Linsfort, Buncranna
- Bauxty Bread
Wash, peel and grate the new potatoes. Wring the grated potatoes tightly in a cloth. Mix what is left with 1/3 of boiled potatoes mashed. Roll out the above and cook in a greased pan like fadge. - Bauxty Dumplings
Wash, peel and grate the new potatoes. Wring the grated potatoes tightly in a cloth. Mix what is left with 1/3 of boiled potatoes mashed. Add flour and salt and shape into dumplings. Plunge in boiling water and it for twenty minutes.
Note. Use more flour in making dumplings than in making bread.
Given by Mrs Doherty (age 79), Carva, Linsfort, Buncranna
To Brigid Moran, Carva, Linsfort, Buncranna - Collector
- Brigid Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Linsfort, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Linsfort, Co. Donegal
