School: Kilmessan (C.) (roll number 4211)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Stín
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- (continued from previous page)the wall. They yoked the horses in the chains and the horses pulled it around. The engine ground the meal inside.The people at present making wheaten meal bread and flour bread. They grow their own wheat and they get it ground into wheaten wheaten meal.
They put the wheaten meal in a basin and sometimes they put flour with it.
- Long ago people made bread on griddles and very seldom they used pot ovens. They used to say that griddle bread was better. They made oaten bread of oaten meal, wet it with water. It was given to children going to school because it was more wholesome for them. In Lent they used to make bread and wet it with water.
They would not put any butter on it.
