School: Boston (roll number 10212)

Location:
Bostoncommon, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhocharthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0777, Page 172

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0777, Page 172

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  1. In the olden times the people grew their own wheat, oats, rye, and maize to make bread. The grain was sent to the local mills to be ground. Before eighteen hundred and seventy nine there were five mills around here, three in Rathangan, one in Pluckerstown, and one in Milltown. Before the mills were built the farmers had querns in their houses, to grind the corn.
    The kinds of bread made were wheaten bread, oaten bread, rye bread, maize bread, potato bread and boxty bread. Buttermilk was used to mix the meal but in poor houses they mixed it with water only. To make the wheaten, rye, and maize bread the meal was mixed with buttermilk, salt and soda were added. The boxty cake was made of grated
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Corcoran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Bostoncommon, Co. Kildare