School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)

Location:
Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs Payne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 204

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 204

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    Bread is made out of flour greatly nowadays and to make brown bread you add wheaten meal very little flour was used one hundred years ago.
    In days gone by there were many sorts of bread made which are not made nowadays The Bere breaad was made from a kind of barley and a little flour The Boxty bread was made from scraped potatoes raw mixed with flour Pancakes were made out of eggs flour buttermilk or beestings Oaten bread was made from moistened meal and water & this was left for a while to rise before it was cooked This bred was very hard to get to stick together It was cut in triangles& two sods of turf were put standing on the clean hearth before the fire The bread was then put lying against facing the side fire When it was cooked on that side it was turned to cook the other side This bread was very brittle when it was cooked and it was very hard to eat but it gave great exercise to the teeth and so we find that they
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alan Hodgins
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Dalystown, Co. Westmeath