School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)with flour and then baked. In olden times the potato cake was very often made out of boiled potatoes and a little amount of flour and some soda. Then it is baked in an oven or on a pan for a certain length of time.
- Cream cake is lively. This is how it is made. A butter is made of the cream off the top of the pan instead of the milk. It is put into a tin and put into the oven and baked for about half an hour. Then is served hot.
- Collector
- Roisin Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drum East, Co. Sligo
- Boxty dumplings - put into a pot of boiling water and left there till boiled.
- Collector
- Máirín Branley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Sarah Branley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
