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Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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    to put down a pot of water with salt in it and when the water would be boiling they would put in the meal and have a nice clean stick to stir it, and a nice moderate fire the way it would not be burned. It would be left boiling for an hour or an hour and a half, and then when it would be boiled it would be taken off the fire and they would then take a saucer of flour and stir it into it.
    So you see it is much easier to boil the kettle than to boil a pot of stirabout as it was done in old times.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John O' Mahony
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcronat, Co. Cork