School: Derrylane
- Location:
- Derrylane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mabel Lougheed
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 045
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes and peel and knead them out with flour. Mix all together with a little salt and milk. Then bake in a greased oven for 2½ hours. Some people baked their bread three times a week. People generally maked their cakes with a knife across the top in squares to keep the crust from breaking. Bread that is made on a griddle is very nice. In olden times people used to bake some currant and raisin cakes for Christmas and Easter in a pot oven. Oaten and wheaten bread were baked in front of the fire standing against a support called a griddle. It was made from iron. These are still made.
- Collector
- Gwennie Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumkilroosk, Co. Cavan
