School: Macha na gClaidhe (roll number 16086)
- Location:
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Macháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0283, Page 457
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- (continued from previous page)in Summer. There is then absolutely certain to be a cream cake for the Visitors' Tea - women are in all times the Visitors. The Cream cake is made as follows. The flour is mixed with sour cream and made into dough. Sugar is also added & the dough is then placed or baked in a bastible.Sweet Cakes : Flour, two eggs, sugar & sour cream are mixed together - but the Cream Cake predominates in all this locality and is considered a rarerty[?]
"I got a cream cake for the tea" is a much used phrase of Mothers after returning from a visit.
