School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)It was a usual habit with the old people which is still carried out to put a sign of a cross on the top of a cake with a knife before being baked. There were two reasons for this; first to keep the top of the cake from rising of and to honour the sign of the cross.The bread was baked on a grid-iron in an oven in front of the fire. It was common to make grid-cakes out of flour or oaten meal.There were special kinds of bread eaten on eve's of feasts and other occasions and these were: Pancakes, sweetcakes, potato-cakes, and other sorts of cakes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thoams Murray
- Gender
- Male