School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)(l) was also made.
For the three blackfast days of Lent a special bread was made mixed with sounds.
Tim Mulready - The people made wheaten bread from the wheat they grew.
Potato-bread, Boxtey-bread and oaten-meal bread were made.
Potato-cake was made from boiled potatoes mixed with flour and baked on a griddle.
Boxtey-bread was made from raw potatoes rasped and dried up with flour and baked on the pan.
Oaten-meal bread was made from oaten meal mixed with water and baked before a strong fire.- Collector
- Philomena Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath