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   no flour to make any other kind until later years. When flour did come into the country it was very few people could afford to buy it and it was the wealthy class that possessed a stone of flour at Christmas.
   When the people got some flour they began to make potato bread and boxty bread but very little flour was needed for them.
   These are the ingredients used in making the potato-bread; boiled potatoes some flour and salt and milk. Firstly the potatoes were mashed and the flour and salt mixed in. If the mixture was too dry a small drop of milk was added. Boxty bread was made much in the same way except that raw potatoes were used. Then the cakes were put on a grid-iron before the fire.

   

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2. Bread

   

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   In Kilnamonagh in olden times oaten bread was the bread most usually used. This is how it was made. It was baked standing before the fire on a little iron with a stand to the back of it. When it was baked it was cut into squares.
   Potato cake used also be made and some people make it even today. This is the way it was made. They peeled the potatoes and bruised [?] them up and mixed flour with them. Then they put it on a stand before the fire and cut them into squares and butter them. They used to grind the oats with small stones called "querins". Enough bread was generally baked on Tuesday to last for a week.

   

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   Language

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   Collector

   Lucy Cawley

   Gender

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   Kilnamanagh, Co. Sligo