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School: Beglieve

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Beglieve, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 042

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 042

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    Starch was made from potatoes in this country before the famine. Home-made starch was used up to fifty years ago. People got potatoes and washed them clean. Then they got a grater and if they had not any, they got a piece of tin and bore holes in it with a nail and grate the potatoes on this. When the potatoes were grated they put the pulp into a clean cloth and wrung the juice into a clean vessel and allowed it to stand for a while. Then they poured the top off and what remained was good starch. This was for shirts, collars and caps.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Seeoran, Co. Cavan