School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)

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   For boxty first we wash the potatoes well and then we peel them. We get a grater and grate them. There are different ways in making boxty. We can make it one way with flour soda and salt. We can make it by squeezing the boxty in a bag made for the purpose and add boiled potatoes and a little flour and a little salt. And the third way it used to be made in olden times was a little flour a small grain of salt and it made into small thick lumps and it put into a pot of boiling water and boiled for a quarter of an hour. For potatoe cake. We boil potatoes and when they are boiled. We peel them. Then we put them on the table and mash them. Then we add salt and flour and mix it together to make a cake of it. Then we cut it into quarters and put it in an oven to bake. First we get oat meal in a dish a pinch of salt a cup of boiling water a grain of sugar some carvyseed if people like it. Then we mix all together with a small pinch of flour until we get it into a cake. The cake is to be made square. Oat meal is never baked in an oven or a pan. There is an iron called a grid-iron to bake it on and the old people sometime ago used

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Teresa Harrison

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Address

   Tullycoly, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Harrison

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   41

   Address

   Tullycoly, Co. Leitrim