School: Lappen (roll number 2020)
- Location:
- Lappan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ruanadha
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- (continued from previous page)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. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Mrs Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Kinard, Co. Monaghan