School: Crowenstown
- Location:
- Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhriain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 291
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Crowenstown
- XML Page 291
- XML “Bread”
- XML “Bread”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)week enough bread was made to last the week.
The mark of the cross was put on the top of the cake to enable the bread to bake quickly. The vessel in which bread was made was called a pot-oven.
Oaten bread used to be baked standing in front of the fire against a support called a tripod or griddle.
- John Heffernan
Delvin, Westmeath
years. (4) school boy
In Delvin
John Heffernan
Delvin (10) 17/5/38
The different kinds that were made were:-potato cake, boxty, and oaten bread.
Potato cake
This was made from potatoes, boiled, peeled, rolled out with a saucepan, and then mixed with flour and a pinch of salt, cut in quarters, and baked on the pan.
Boxty bread
This was made from oaten meal, mixed with yeast, and wetted with milk or water, and baked on a griddle, or left(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
