School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab (2) (roll number 13976)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   of potatoes into a bag and then a heavy stone was put on the top of it. Then the stone was pressed hard on the top of the bag and in that way they squeezed the water out of the potatoes. Then the potatoes were grated up small and put into a dish and some flour was mixed up with the grated potatoes. A half tea-spoonful of soda and a pinch of salt was then mixed up with the flour and some butter-milk was poured in, and all the ingredients were mixed up together and the cake was put into a pan and baked on the griddle. This bread when baked was brownish in colour. They also had another kind of bread called starch cake. It was made the same way as Stampy Bread but starch was put into it when making it. They made the starch themselves and this is how they made it. When they left the water which they squeezed out of the potatoes in a vessel for a while, then the water was thrown

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Billy Roycroft

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballydehob, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr J. Roycroft

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballydehob, Co. Cork