School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 282
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- (continued from previous page)the way our ordinary cake is made. The oat-cake is made with water and salt and the cake the people make now is on milk, salt and soda. First you get oat-meal and a mixing board. Add a pinch of salt and wet it with soft water. The oat-cake has to get a good deal more mixing than any other cake because it is hard got together. It is baked against a baking board and is put before a moderate fire. It takes an hour for baking.
- There was a drink used long ago and it was called Potato-rum. The way it was made was - the potatoes were clean and put in a wooden vessel with sugar. The vessel(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr B. Shanley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
