School: Lappen (roll number 2020)

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1. Food, Cooking, Farming etc, Old Crafts (continued)

   

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   Dumplings were made by mixing potatoes & oatmeal and rolled into lumps & but (sic) into boiling water. They were eaten from plates and they were cut up and eaten to butter.
   A young goat or kid was killed & put in a crock of water.
   At first tea & currant bread was novelty for children for Easter Sunday.
   Rye bead was made & was sweeter than others.
   Boxty bread was made from potatoes & flour or oat meal or rye meal.
   Bread was made immediately before tea & often tea was wet before pan was put on the fire.
   The pedlars would carry sand broken down fine from sandstone & they gave it for pint tin of oat meal. It was used for scrubbing tables etc.

   

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2. Food, Cooking, Farming etc, Old Crafts

   

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   In her mother's time they made tea from mint. The mint was gathered in the summer time and dried. It was chopped up fine & made like tea.
   She also said they made the "Boxty" from new potatoes with water squeezed out of them

   

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Duffy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   68

   Address

   Kinard, Co. Monaghan