School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na Sluagh
- Location:
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Sr. M. Oiliféar
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- Bread-making1. Long ago people used oaten bread, and it was made by putting the oats through a quern.
Boxty bread was made from potatoes.
Barm bread was also made from potatoes.Got from,
Mrs Keating,
Church Hill,
Ballinasloe.
- Informant
- Mrs Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Church Hill, Co. Galway
- 2. Long ago people made oaten bread out of oat meal. It is made with water and sugar. It is baked on a grid iron. Boxty bread is made with potatoes. They grated the raw potatoes and rye meal, and mixed it with the potato and baked it on a griddle. They put a cross on the(continues on next page)
