School: Borris (C.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 524
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- (continued from previous page)carried with them several oaten cakes to support them on the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Oaten bread retains its crispness for quite a long time.
During the dreadful famine years & for long afterwards yellow-meal bread was largely used in this locality. It was sustaining but not nourishing.
Bran bread was also used.
Many farmers ground their own corn between two stones: one hollow & the other shaped like a mallet. The women on the farm helped at the grinding. On Shrove Tuesday pancakes were made. Potato bread was made when potatoes were new.
On Michaelmas Day, mutton pastries were made & eaten in Graigue-na-Managh: and for Halloween & for Christmas Day Barnbrack were made.
- Collector
- Maureen Clancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
