School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 386
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- This is how the people made the oat meal bread long ago. They would put oat-meal on a table and they would wet it with water. Then they would make it the shape of a pancake. They had a griddle, and they would leave it beside the fire, and they would leave the oat-meal cake on the griddle. When the cake was hard it was said to be baked.
- Collector
- John Monaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Monaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
- How boxy was made. First the potatoes are grated fine with a grater, and then put into a clean flour bag. Then they are squeezed until all the moisture is pressed out. The bag is then emptied into a basin, and a small quantity of flour is added and a small quantity of salt and soda is added also. Then all is mixed together, and milk or water to wet it. Then it is shaped in the form of a pancake. After that it is put into the(continues on next page)
