School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 09_021
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- Bread 23-6-1938The bread that the people made in olden times consisted of wheat or corn or oaten-meal and water and sometimes butter-milk. Boxty bread was used too and this was made from potatoes and salt and water. The potatoes we scraped on a tin with holes in it, and they mixed with the sale and water and some flour and then baked. Potato cake was eaten in olden times. It was made from potatoes and salt and flour. The potatoes were boiled and the skin was taken off them and they were crushed and mixed with the other things. This mixture was in a cake then. It was cut into three corner bits and then it was baked on a griddle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thoams Murray
- Gender
- Male
