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School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

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Clontuskert, Co. Galway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 10_008

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    Bread 23-6-1938
    Bread was made from wheat and oats locally, and some flour was made locally also. People do remember querns and they are still in use. Potato cake and boxty bread and oaten-meal bread, were some of the different kinds of bread made long ago. Potato cake was made from peeled boiled potatoes and flour and sometimes milk. Boxty bread from raw scraped potatoes. The scraper was of tin and holes in it. When they had them scraped they put them in a clean cloth and squeezed and put oaten meal and flour through them. Oaten meal bread was made from oaten meal and flour and water and baked before the fire.
    The ingredients in the different sorts of bread were: Boiled
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Coirceán
    Gender
    Female