School: St Columba’s, Coggale
- Location:
- Cogaula, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Fiacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 484
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- Boxty
To make boxty people got a piece of tin & put several holes in it with a nail Then they got potatoes & peeled them. Then they scraped them with the tin scraper (above) Then mixed with flour & salt, and made them into form of a cake and put it on the pan to bake"Bulls Milk" or or soans was used long ago by men (as a drink) when out mowing. They mixed oatmeal & water & left it stand for a few hours. Then they poured off the water & used it as a drink"A Cast" of Potatoes
This was prepared by burying potatoes in the "gríosach" and leaving them(continues on next page)
