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School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)

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Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Manning Joseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 061

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  1. Bread-Baking in Olden Times

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    It does not matter to me how many inventions they bring into being. I believe that when all is said and done they are all lacking when results are taken into account. This for instance in case of the principal food for the household, I mean bread. The bread made at the present time was only fit for sickly people compared with the fine, strong bread that was made in homes and baked on a griddle.
    I think there are few housekeepers nowadays who could make a cake as round as a bicycle wheel, with oaten meal and water and bake it on a griddle. This griddle was a round piece of metal, very smooth at one side,
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Flynn
    Gender
    Female