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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0890, Page 174

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    Wheaten, oaten, and barley bread were made. The bread was made from corn grown locally.
    Flour was not made locally, but wheaten meal was.
    Gerard Leacy.
    Told me by my mother,
    Mrs Leacy, (38 yrs)
    Carrigeen, Ferns, Co Wexford.
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    The name of the vessel in which bread was baked was pot-oven or bake-pan.
    Michael Parle,
    The Harrow, Ferns, Co Wexford.
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    Flour is made from wheat in Cooladine Mill now. (near Enniscorthy).

    Joseph Doran.
    Mount George, Ferns, Co Wexford.
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    Long ago potato cakes were made and eaten. Barley bread and oaten bread were used long ago. It was baked on a griddle or in an oven. There was enough of bread baked on a Saturday for a few days.
    Wheaten bread was not used long ago.

    Eileen Turner.
    Meaugh, Boolavogue, Ferns, Co Wexford.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Norah Breen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycarrigeen Lower, Co. Wexford