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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 11_009

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    Bread 23-6-1938
    The kind of bread the people used to make in olden times was boxty bread, oaten-bread, and wheaten-bread. They used to also make potato-cake.
    The people long ago made their own flour themselves with a hand quern in their own home. Milk was used generally for making the bread.
    The people used to bake bread almost every day. A cross was cut on the cake when made, t'was a kind of an old custom among the people cutting the cross on the cake.
    The bread was baked in a pot-oven. Bread was often baked in the front of the fire standing against a support. Griddle bread was also made. People used to make pan-cakes on special occasions, such as
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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