School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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- (continued from previous page)strained from the grated potatoes when making boxty, was saved in a wooden pail. After an hour the water was strained off leaving the starch on the bottom. Then get a clean pot with a half-gallon of clean boiling water, lift out into this two handfuls of the starch and let it boil a few minutes. This made a strach for linen table cloths, to starch a shirt front or collar less water and more starch is used as it must be stronger to stiffen.
- Collector
- Mary Jane Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guire
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford