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School: Meall an tSrutháin (roll number 2117)

Location:
Maulatrahane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Luasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0299, Page 054

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  1. How Bread used be Made Long ago

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    Long ago, when poor people could not afford to have a bastible they had to bake the bread on a flat iron placed on the fire.
    The name of that iron was a griddle.
    Most of their bread was made of bran and very little white flour.
    At Easter and at Christmas they made special cakes with grated potatoes, they called these "stampies."
    When they were making the cake they put a cross on top of it, this was to make the cake bake to perfection.
    It was the rich people of that period who had bastibles and when baking the cake they put the bastible on
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Maire Ní Choileain
    Gender
    Female