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School: Scoil Áine Naomhtha, Ráth gCaola (roll number 6569)

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Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
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An tSr. M. Assidium
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    ground into flour by the housewife and then then wet with sour milk and baked in a pot oven over a turf fire.
    During the harvest time when the potatoes were dug out and ready to be stored for the winter the woman of the house usually made a potato cake by grating raw potatoes and drying them with flour and afterwards baking them in a hot griddle. When done it was eaten hot with butter and was considered a great treat. People seldom ate late at night those times.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Riddlestown, Co. Limerick