School: Druim Bréan Lios (roll number 15029)
- Location:
- Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín Nic Ghuidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 087
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- (continued from previous page)and over the oven. No Christmas supper was complete without a boxty loaf.
Another common bread was potato cake made of boiled potatoes mixed with flour and baked in a pan.
Often instead of flour the potatoes were mixed with oatmeal and this was baked in dripping. The latter a mixture of oatmeal and potatoes was often made into dumplings and let boil in a pot of soup.
- About forty years ago milk in country places was often scarce in the spring. The people prepared a substance for taking along with porridge called "sounds". This was made by steeping "tails" (that is a sort of seeds[?] got from a corn mill after the oats was ground) with water and left to soak for about a fortnight. At the end of that time the mixture is strained and the juice called "sounds". If the sounds is boiled for about seven hours it thickens and is called "flummery."
- Informant
- James Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim
