School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 129
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- Among the kinds of bread made long ago were -: boxty, potato-cake and oat-meal bread.
Boxty was made from raw potatoes, grated, mixed with flour and salt and baked on a pan.
Potato-cake was made from boiled bruised potatoes mixed with flour and cut in four quarters and baked on a pan.
Oat meal bread is made from oat-meal mixed with hot water and sometimes there is a handful of flour mixed in. It is then made into a cake and baked on a griddle.
- Collector
- M. Ó Dubhthaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Bread was not used much long ago except on certain occasions.
Oat-meal bread, potato-bread and boxty bread were the breads eaten mostly by the common people.
Oat-meal bread was made of oat-meal mixed with water and sometimes salt and flour were added. It was then baked on a griddle near the fire.
Potato-bread was made from boiled bruised potatoes mixed with salt and baked on a pan.(continues on next page)
