School: An Clochar, Baile Caisleáin Bhéara (roll number 13762)

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   Bread was also baked in front of the fire and this was oaten bread and was only baked for unhealthy people.

   

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2. Bread

   

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   The kind of bread that was used in this district in the olden times was, wheaten bread, oatmeal bread, potato cake, and sometimes stampy and boxtey bread. The flour was made in the district, the wheat was grown there, and ground in a quern. The quern or grinder stones are still to be seen in the district.
   The wheaten bread was made from home grown and ground wheat butter milk was used at its kneading and it was baked in a bastable. It was of a dark colour but was very healthy food.
   The oatmeal bread was made from home grown wheat and oats, ground in a quern, they were mixed together. Flummery was used at its kneading, this

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Downing

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Curragh East, Co. Cork