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School: Rathnew

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Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
D. Ó Drisceóil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 043

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 043

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  3. XML “Cake-Making”
  4. XML “Bread”

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  1. Cake-Making (continued)

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    in the shape of a cake and put four lines through it.
    Another old custom for baking bread is to put a pot hanging over the fire. Then put the cake in it and put a lid on it and then put burning sticks and coal on top of the lid and when the cake gets brown you turn it.
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  2. Bread

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    People used to make bread long ago different to the way they make it now.
    Long ago the people used to make bread out of crushed oats and water. They used to have no pans that time and some of them used to leave the cake down on the fire. More of them used to lap the cake up in netting wire and hang it over the fire. When their bread used be baked it used be
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Choncubhair
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Rathnew, Co. Wicklow