School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)until thoroughly cooked. These were eaten with melted butter and sugar, or with "flummery". The flummery was made with sweet milk, flour, and sugar boiled together.
The oaten - cake was commonly made with oatmeal wet with boiling water, mixed into a stiff dough thoroughly kneaded with the hands, and flattened out into a big round cake. It was left to firm and harden. Then it was put standing to a bread iron in front of the fire and baked thoroughly. If in a hurry a number of small cakes were made, the turf coals were pulled out, the tongs placed over them, and the small cakes baked on the tongs.
Oatenbread and buttermilk were commonly taken as a meal.- Collector
- Ellen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardamagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Ellen Donohue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisanny, Co. Cavan