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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:
Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 067

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    The different kinds of bread were oaten bread, leaven bread, wheaten bread, and potato bread, and the meal was ground locally.
    It was baked on a griddle or in a dutch oven.
    When making leaven bread you have to mix the leaven with wheaten, and flour, and salt, and then leave it all at the fire till it rises, & keep a bit for the next time. We have a 'thing' that oatmeal bread used to be made on. It is shaped like a square and it has little squares on it, and it used be propped up with bricks before the fire, & the bread was laid on it.
    Potato-bread was made with
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hitchestown, Co. Louth