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1. Stampy

   

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   Long ago flour was scarce and the country people lived mostly on potatoes. They made a kind of potato-cake called stampy. It was used a good deal when digging the potatoes in harvest.
   Large potatoes were selected and carefully washed, and the skin scraped off with a knife. Each potato was rubbed on a grater, or sheet of tin holed from one side, and the pulp collected into a basin. The boys generally did the grating and often they scratched their fingers.
   The soft pulp was put into a clean white cloth and the water squeezed out. It was then mixed with a little flour, salt and soda and baked in a griddle. When baked, stampy has a lovely flavour, and used hot with butter rubbed of it, it was food fit for a King. The old people used to say, "You would ate your fingers after it."
   Stampy was generally made in the evening when the farmer had a "mihul" digging potatoes and the boys were very glad to get a stiall of it. After that they had a dance when the boys "flinged" around the flour in their nailed boots, corduroy breeches, and frieze coats, and the girls in their heavy flannel dresses and

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