School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 364
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- Long ago the people had a different way of making bread from the way people make it now. They used get a cup or two of flour and a cup of meal and water and mix the whole thing up together. The people now get flour, salt, soda, and creamery milk for making bread. Flour was not made locally at all long ago. There is only an odd person that remember querns. The names of the bread made were potato cake, stampy, boxty bread, oaten meal bread, currant cake, sometimes apple pie and yellow meal bread. The bread would be there sometimes for a week or more without being used. When ever it used be cut it used be cut in the form of a cross. The people had no special name for it. It was always baked in a griddle. The griddle used be laid down on stones beside the fire. They used have a currant cake sometimes at Christmas.
- Collector
- John Moulyneax
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooncaha, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jerr Moulyneax
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Dooncaha, Co. Kerry
