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   Long ago people used to make bread from yellow meal. When it was made it was a black colour. It was baked on a griddle made from wire. There is a man in Augclare about three miles from here who has two grinding stones that was used long ago. My Mother said that when flour came out first it was black.

   

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   Bread was made from wheat and oats grown locally. The corn was groun between gring stones. They had two stones and they had a hole in each of the stones. They had an ironbar in the hole of the top stone and they had a handle on the iorn bar. They put the corn in the hole of the lower stone and then they turned the handle. Then the corn was ground. Potatoe-bread, barley-bread, wheaten meal bread and

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie Molloy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Whitechurch, Co. Wexford