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   lighting on top there is no necessity for turning the cake in the pot. It takes about a half-hour or thereabout to bake a cake.
   The way the people used the oven long ago was by leaving it on the hearth and lighting a fire of sticks and dry ferns underneath.
   To make leaven bread a piece of leaven is usually got from a neighbour. The bread is made from wheaten meal and flour and a piece of the dough kept until the next bread-making day. Then the piece of dough is mixed in with the fresh dough to make it rise. It is then taken and re-kneaded and then baked in an oven or on a griddle.
   A potato cake is a very enjoyable dish. First of all about four or five boiled potatoes are mashed up and mixed with a little flour. A little pinch of salt and breadsoda are then added and to make a nice cake a little piece of butter is put in. Buttermilk is then added and it is made into a cake and baked on a griddle. When the cake is put on the griddle it is cut into squares, and when these are baked on one side they are turned and baked on

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Gallagher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockcommon, Co. Meath