School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Ard an Chrainn, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
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- (continued from previous page)way only you put a hand-full of Indian-meal in it.
When ever currant bread is being baked you add a couple of ounces of currants.
When ever bread is ready for the oven the people cut a cross on the top of it.
Some people say it makes the cake rise better and other people do it to divide the ch cake in-to four shares. Some people use the pot oven. When the cake is put in the pot oven, a lid is put on and live coals of turf are put on it and under the oven
Oat cake is baked on a griddle.
Oat cake is made in flat cakes and placed on the griddle.
The cakes are set up-right on the hearth stone.
A turf is placed behind each cake.
In olden times it was all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tUcht , Co. Dhún na nGall
