School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 286
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- Wheaten or brown bread was used mostly by the old people. It was made from wheat. Oatmeal was often mixed with white flour for bread, and Indian Meal + Bran made another kind of a cake. Nobody remembers 'querns' being used. Potatoe bread + Boxty were made too and are still made. To make boxty bread raw potatoes were grated down + mixed with flour + wet with water or buttermilk.
Bread was baked every day in the country. The sign of the cross was put on top of the cake for luck + to make the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Lindsay
- Gender
- Female
