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School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

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Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 166

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    Cloth into wooden pails. The water was let to stand for a day and then strained off to get at the starch that remained in the bottom of the pail .This was dried on sheets in the sun and left by in a bin and cakes wee made from it for special occasions such as stations or weddings .The ingredients used for all bread were home ground Querns or grinding stones were used to grind the oates. The oates was thrashed with a flail and eleaned on a wind sheet . A booran was used to lift the oates from it . Then it was put into a big pot and dried over the fire. Then they spread sheets on the floor and a man took off his boots and set pad in on the sheets with the quern. If
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Jane Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Mrs Hussey
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    67
    Address
    Kilcommock Glebe, Co. Longford