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   comes from the back and the three pieces are nailed together at the top. This stick that comes from the back keeps the support from falling. At the bottom there is a piece of tin with a hollow in the tin. The oat - meal bread sits in the hollow in the tin and leans on the wood at the sides. This is a drawing of the mudgarn.
   The way you make boxty "bread" is you get raw potatoes and peel them and grate them on a fine grater and strain until the pulp is out of the juice then let the juice settle on the top of the vessel - the starch is on the bottom, then the water is emptied off the top and the starch is left behind. You mix the starch and the pulp together and all you have to do then is put it on a griddle and cook it.
   Potato bread or as we call it "slim" bread is made from cooked potatoes and salt and flour or if there is no flour you can put oat - meal in place of the flour. You peel the potatoes and pound them with the bottom of a tin or a noggin then you mix them all together and roll it out and cut it as was done with the oat - meal bread. You cook the slim

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Woods

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Oram, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Thomas Smith

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Tullycaghny, Co. Monaghan