School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- (continued from previous page)Flour Bread.
A kind of cake made from potatoes and flour alone is made in this district in the farmers' houses for the evening tea.
Peel the potatoes and leave till quite cold, bruise them with the bottom of a flat mug, then add salt and flour mix in sufficient flour to dry well. Add no milk mix and roll out. Cut into (farrells) and bake on a hot pan. Turn occasionally and bake well. Served with nice fresh butter. Flour bread is very nice with tea.
If it gets cold it can be re-heated on a grid iron or tongs and it is even nicer this way.Potato Yeast.
A kind of yeast is made from boiled potatoes peeled and left steeping in a jug of water soft for some time and then used for cakes.(continues on next page)
