School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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- (continued from previous page)be used in the making of this bread but poor people made it with barm instead. People always put a cross on top of the cake. The meaning of this cross was to give way to the cake to bake.
Barm. To make barm you should boil potatoes and mash them. Then you should strain them through a fine cloth. The juice which would go down through the cloth you would put it into a gallon and cover it. Then you would boil water and let it cool. When cool you would mix the indregents out of the potatoes and a half gallon of the cooled water. Then you would add some salt and one pound of flour.
Then cover it and let it rest over night and it would rise during the night and you could make bread of it.
- Collector
- Nula Ní Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs W. Dennehy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
