School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

Location:
Clontuskert, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
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    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.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thoams Murray
    Gender
    Male