School: Gortahose
- Location:
- Gortachoosh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: F. Mag Shamhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 469
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- (continued from previous page)breakfast, and the woman of the house put down the pot and made a fine pot of stirabout which was eaten with a mug of buttermilk or sounds a liquid made from oats, steeped and soured. After all their work they had a comfortable breakfast at about half nine o' clock in the morning.
- How to make potato-bread.
This was told to me by Mrs Kiernan, Maullaghboy, who is now ninety years of age.
This is the way people long ago made potato-bread. First they got potatoes and bruised them well with the bottom of a bottle, then they got a hand-ful of salt and mixed all up together, and made them into farrels. They then baked them on a grid iron or on the paws of the tonges which were left on a clean smokeless coal. When they would have it cooked it would be eaten with butter and sugar. They always used to put a little cross on it with a knife when they would be making it. This cross was made so that the cake would turn out good and(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Mullaghboy, Co. Leitrim
