School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)
- Location:
- Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Manning Joseph
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- (continued from previous page)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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Flynn
- Gender
- Female