School: Druim Bréan Lios (roll number 15029)

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1. Food Used by the People in this Locality 40 Years Ago (continued)

   

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   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.

   

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2. Sounds and Flummery

   

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   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."

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James Kiernan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim