School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Quay Street, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 213
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- Bread.
Boxty is made by washing potatoes in their jackets and by grating and straining them. Then they are mixed with flour and baked in a warm tree oven.
Shortbread is used at Christmas. it is made with flour and butter and castor sugar, and is baked in a baking tin placed in a an oven. In most places oatcakes are baked while standing against a iron in front of the fire. First they are mixed with oatmeal and flour and cut in the shape of a quarter of a circle and placed in an oven and placed on a hob beside the fire for a long time until they are baked hard.
- Collector
- Vincent Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs P. Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knoxspark, Co. Sligo
