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1. Local Flour Milling and Bread-Making (continued)

   

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   fit for eating. Sometimes instead of making "dumplings" a cake called a "dumpling cake" is made and put into a hot oven and baked for a few hours. During the winter months the people used to make what was known as barm-bread. It was made with yeast bought in a shop. Flour was first got and put in a basin along with soda and salt. Yeast was then poured into the basin and the dough kneaded
   This was then put into a narrow-knecked bottle and corked. When the yeast would work the cork would shoot out of the bottle. It would then be taken out of the bottle, put into a hot oven and baked for twelve hours. It would be a foot high when baked and like a loaf. It would be nice to eat but very unhealthy. Whoever eats it for a whole season would have all kinds of skin diseases

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philomena Clarke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ratrussan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Patrick Clarke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ratrussan, Co. Cavan