School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)

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   Boxty bread was made in the same way, but it was wet with cream instead. It was often made in the summer, and it was carried to the men who were working in the meadows.

   Yellow meal bread was made with meal and flour. Bother were well mixed and a pinch of soda added, and then it was wet with some milk. Then it was baked in the oven. Flour bread was made in the same way, but not meal was used.

   

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2. Bread

   

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   In olden times in the country wheaten bread was the principal bread made. When the people had no thresh to thresh the oats, they had an old method of threshing it, with an instrument called afeail [?]. It was made of two bits of sticks like a handle of a spade, there was one short one and a long one, the two were joined together with a piece of leather.

   On the top of the two sticks they were joined together with a fong[?] (strip of leather). The wheat would

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Lyons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Castleisland, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs Lyons

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   53

   Address

   Castleisland, Co. Kerry