School: Cill Éinne (Killina) (roll number 12818)
- Location:
- Killinny East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire C. Ní Ghríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0048, Page 0193
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They made a grater from a sheet of tin about 9 ins. by 6 ins. with holes bored in it - as close to each other as possible - and nailed it to a piece of board smooth side under.
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They got some large raw potatoes and peeled them and washed them and grated them into a dish.
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They wrung the grated potatoes through a cloth.
4
They mixed in some flour and a little salt - some people used put a little sweet milk - kneaded it and baked as potatobread: or they sometimes made "dumplings" of the mixture - size of large eggs and boiled them in a pot of boiling water.
5. They sometimes baked the cake in the hot ashes.
- Informant
- James Davenport
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
