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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 21_031

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    Bread.
    The only kind of bread eaten by our ancestors was wholemeal baked on a griddle and rye bread, boxty cake, and potato cake. The way they used to make boxty cake was they peal off the skin and then scraped it on a tin and then they put it in a cloth and squeazed it and then they put it on a dish and made it into a cake and baked it on a griddle.
    In olden times the people used not
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrycahill, Co. Roscommon