Boxty Bread still used. Boiled Boxty and baked boxty - that is the grated or mashed raw potatoes mixed with flour.

hour and a half to bake hard and when it was baked and cold it was then eaten.
People also used Boxty bread and potato cake. Two different kinds of Boxty were made. The ingredients used for Boxty known as "boiled Boxty" were raw potatoes salt and boiled mashed potatoes. First of all the potatoes were washed thoroughly and the "eyes" picked out of them. Then they were grated with a grater and the grated potatoes were put in a cloth and the water wrung off them. The boiled mashed potatoes were mixed with the wrung, grated potatoes. Salt was added and then there were little round cakes like buns made of it. It was boiled for an hour in hot water and sometimes was eaten when hot with butter after being boiled. It was also used heated with bacon in a pan when cold and eaten with butter.
Pan-Cake Boxty - Another variety of Boxty known as "pan-cake boxty" was made in a similar way by washing the peeled potatoes thoroughly

One of the favourite foods that the people like is Boxty. They used it three times a day long ago. There was three kinds of Boxty. Boiled, Fried and pancake boxty. The old fashioned boxty that the people used was the fried boxty. They first washed the raw potatoes. Than they peeled them and grated them with an article called a grater. It is a tin article with holes sticking through it in order to make it rough to grate the potatoes. They mix some flour and some boiled potatoes through it. Then they mix it up and they cut it into squares.The boiled boxty was made much the same as the fried boxty. It was made into round small cakes and put into a pot of boiling water and boiled for an hour or so.

Boxty - MakingBoxty is made frequently in this part of the country. It is a very nice dish. It consists of three kinds, pan boxty, boiled boxty or boxty dumplings and boxty loaf. This is how pan boxty is made.
Potatoes are washed, peeled and grated, and soda, salt and butter milk and flour are put into the mixture. It is then beaten into a batter about the consistency of cream. A small quantity is poured on to a hot frying pan, and baked in the same manner as pancakes.

piece of wood, eighteen inches long, and about six inches wide was got for a back for the grater. The piece of tin was curved in shape and fastened to the back with fine wire nails or tacks. This was placed standing in the basin or crock and the raw potatoes were grated by rubbing them quickly up and down on the grater. A boxty bag made out of calico was next got and the raw boxty in small quantities was put into it, and squeezed until all the water was taken out. The dry boxty was placed in a large wooden dish, and the water squeezed out of the boxty was kept and allowed to stand for some time till the starch fell to the bottom. This starch was kept for laundry purposes. Boiled potatoes were mashed up finely by bruising and added to the raw boxty. Some flour was then added and a good handful of salt. These ingredients were mixed together with the hand and wet with either sweet milk or buttermilk according to taste. Boxty was sometimes spread thinly over the pan and baked on one side, or it was put into a pot oven and baked beside the fire with turf coals under the oven and on the lid. Sometimes the boxty was made into little dumplings and put into a pot of boiling water, and kept boiling

eaten in this way the boxty was very tasty and a person could perform a great amount of hard work after a meal of it.When pancake boxty is to be made no dumplings are formed. Instead of these one large cake is made of sufficient size to fit upon the pan and about 2 inches in thickness. Currants are often mixed in these cakes. Sometimes when the side next the fire is well cooked the cake is turned upside down so as to have it equally well baked all through. Sometimes these cakes are eaten at tea just after cooking but very often they are left over for breakfast, sliced up and heaped in bacon gravy or melted butter just as is done with the dumplings.Notes on the foregoing - Boxty.Cloone is about 7 miles from Carrigallen and from Roddy the Rover (Irish Press) has got the name of "Boxty Cloone". He visited Rev P. Conefry P.P. there on the occasion of the local [?], and partook of some of the good things, provided including "boxty", which Fr. Conefry isdoign his best to popularise. But he might have said "Boxty Leitrim" for this lovely delicacy is made all over the county, though, of late, some people consider "boxty" rather out of date. I am inclined to think these people never fail ot make it "on the quiet". Owing to Fr. Conefry's efforts "boxty" is fast regaining its popularity.

The boxty consisted of raw potatoes grated and mixed with flour.
There were two kinds of boxty, boiled boxty, and pan cake boxty. The boiled boxty consised of grated potatoes having the water squeezed out of it. Boiled potatoes were mashed and mixed with the grated boxty and flour and salt added. It was made into dumplings and boiled. After boiling for an hour and a half it was put on the pan and fried. Boiled boxty was called dumplings.
The oaten bread was wet with water, salt having been already added, was left in front of the fire to bake.
Boxty was made on Hollowe'en, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve.

When one is about to make boxty the first thing to do is to get big potatoes and wash them thoroughly. Then you peel off the skin with a knife. Next they are grated and the boxty is put in a basin and strained. When the boxty water is let settle there is a starch got from it. The boxty, when strained is mixed with flour and salt and baked on a pan.

Boxty was a food commonly used by the old Irish people. In those days, what we now call soda bread was not much eaten, and not considered strong enough to satisfy a hungry Irish man. Oaten bread, potato cake and boxty were the varieties of bread generally used in all farm houses. Fruit cake and buns were unknown in those early days.
There are three kinds of boxty, pancake boxty, loaf boxty and boiled boxty. Pancake boxty was usually used for afternoon tea. It was made in the following way. Six large raw potatoes, two boiled ones, about one pound of flour, a teaspoon of salt and sweet milk.
Wash, peel and grate the raw potatoes. Put into a boxty bag, similar to a jelly bag. Squeeze some of the water into a clean bowl leaving the pulp soft. Turn into a clean basin. Mash or bruise the boiled potatoes finely, mix into the raw ones, add salt, flour and enough sweet make to make a fairly thick batter. Have a

"Boxty dumplings" are prepared the same way as pan-boxty. The potatoes are grated and left to drain; the starch is taken from the remaining water and put into the grated mixture. The same ingredients are used for pan-boxty with the addition of mashed potatoes. Afterwards the little cakes are kneaded, shaped, and dried with flour. The cakes each average four inches in diameter and about one inch in thickness. They are next put into a pot of boiling water.
Two or three spoons are put in the bottom of the pot so that the cakes may not stick. The old people of this district have a certain way of knowing when the boxty is cooked. They put their hands underneath the bottom of the pot and if it is cool the boxty is done.
The boxty loaf is prepared in the same manner as the

Boxty is in general use in this disitrict. There are three kinds of Boxty:-
(a) Pan Boxty - or Boxty Pancakes.
(b) A Boxty Loaf.
(c) Boxty Dumplings

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Bread
Bread was made from wheat and oats long ago. Long ago there were no bake-houses. The people made their own bread. They had a quern for breaking hard lumps of corn. There is a grind stone in Mr Gairgan's field in Ballydaly still. Boxty bread is made on the pan. There is an old rhyme about the boxty bread "Boxty on the griddle, boxty on the pan if you don't eat boxty you will never be a man. There are many kinds of bread such s potato cakes, boxty bread, wheaten breat, black bread and griddle cakes. Flour was not made as easy then as it is nowadays. The bread was made with water instead of milk. Bread used to be baked in front of the fire or on

of the fire to bake. A bread-iron is a flat iron similar to a griddle with a strut at the back to support it on the ground. It has to be well watched in case it would burn.
Boxty is very familiar in this locality. My mother makes it often. There are two kinds of boxty, boiled boxty and baked boxty. My mother makes the baked boxty in the following way. First she gets sufficient raw potatoes washes them, peels them and grates them fine with a grater in a basin. The tinsmith makes graters with perforated tin. She then gets an equal number of boiled potatoes and mashes them fine. She gets a clean cloth and wrings out the water of the raw potatoes. She then mixes the boiled ones with the raw ones. Next she gets sufficient flour to keep it together and mixes it with the boxty. She then adds salt and some people put in currants and raisins in it. She then puts it in the oven to bake for four hours.

Bread making.
Long ago the bread used was boxty, potato bread and pancakes. They are not made now only on certain occasions such as Christmas Eve, and November Eve.
There are two kinds of boxty boiled boxty and a boxty loaf. This is the way they are made for the boxty loaf you get about eighteen potatoes and wash them clean; then you pick the eyes out of them and wash them again in soft water. Next you get a basin and a grater made from a bottom of a can holed with a nail. "The potatoes are pealed nowdays but they were not long ago." When they are grated they are mixed with flour and a pinch of salt, then it is put into an oven and baked. It is generally baked at night and eaten the next day. It is cut round in the middle in half. Then the oven is put on fir and butter put in it. Next half of the cake is put onto it and left there untill it is toasted. Then it is taken out and eaten with butter. I often ate it and it is lovely.
Boiled boxty is made like this it is washed and mixed with a wooden spoon the same as a boxty loaf only it is put into a bag and the water strained out of

róistín. Tugadh ‘‘boxty’’ ar an sórt cáca seo.

digging the potatoes they kept the sadlers and made a kind of bread called boxty.

Boxty bread was baked on a grid iron.

Boxty dumplings - put into a pot of boiling water and left there till boiled.

How boxty bread was made. In oldern times the people used to make Boxty bread and this is the way they made it. They washed potatoes and got a side of an old tin can and a nail and put holes in the tin and got the potatoes and rubbed the potatoes up and down the tin until they were grated. Then they got a white cloth and squeezed the grated potatoes. They mixed boiled potatoes through the grated ones and got a grain of salt and mixed them together. They baked the boxty on a griddle. Their eyes were red blowing the fire to the boxty bread.

Boxty was made from potatoes and wheaten flour.