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School: Na Creaga

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Creggs, Co. Galway
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Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 077

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    Boxty. Ingredients. Potatoes. A little flour and salt. Clean the potatoes well and scrape some of the skin off. A scraper can be made by boring a piece of tin. The rough side will serve for scraping the potatoes. (the). When you have the potatoes scraped, put into a loose cloth and squeeze all the water out of them. Then mix a few boiled potatoes a little flour and salt with the squeezed potatoes. Bake on a griddle. Then this was used as the people's chief food in this district when flour was expensive about thirty years ago. When milk was scarce the people used to make "flumery" for to put in oatmeal bread. The oatmeal must be soaking overnight in water and it can be used instead of buttermilk. "Sweadeen" was mixing oatmeal with milk and a little sugar. It
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maura Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skehaghard, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skehaghard, Co. Galway