School: Allenwood, Robertstown (roll number 1712)

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   “Bread long ago was made from wheat, oats and rye.”

   

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   it was strained and used like buttermilk. It was drunk with potatoes and wetted cakes. The cakes were baked standing before the fire. A sod of turf on a brick was put at each side of the cake and the "maide briste", that is a tongs made of a (broken bent) sally was put at the back, and the cake was put standing in between the legs of the tongs. The wheaten cakes were baked very hard. First the wheaten flour was put over it and more dry flour and wetted with flummery and then it was kneaded for a long time until very hard. When the cake was finished the woman would put her elbow down on the top to let out the steam when baking. Enough cakes used to be baked in a day to do a family for a week. When the cakes were baked they would be put on a shelf on the "puck" each side of the fire. On Halloween calcannon was made. Shrove Tuesday pancakes were made. When

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   Informant

   Patrick Cleary

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   Gráinseach Chláir Thiar, Co. Chill Dara