School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)

Location:
Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Manning Joseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 062

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 062

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    with a handle on it so that it could be hung on a peg. When properly baked it used to last for a long time. One day in the week was the usual time taken up for baking and the bread, even after a week, was considered better than the fresh baked thin[?].
    As proof of this when our people were obliged to emigrate to the U.S.A. in those times and the means of travelling was primitive, when our ships did not supply its passengers with food, they could safely rely on their home-made bread for their long voyage sometimes for two months. The baking on a griddle was not confined to oatenbread. There was excellent wholemeal or flour bread
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Flynn
    Gender
    Female