Scoil: Kilbeggan (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Bread (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   This bread was made during the periods when butter milk was scarce in the locality.
   Cream of Tartar bread.
   Was made from wheat, flour, soda, salt, cream of Tartar, and water. Oatmeal was left steeping until it became sour mixed with flour on wheat and baked in the usual way it was known as stampy or Stampy bread.

   The women of these far off day were thrifty. Wages were small, so they were chancellors at saving both money, time, and energy. They churned once a week and generally did their baking the same afternoon as the churned. The milk was taken from the churn also, and put in crocks and basins. When empty it the churn was scrubbed. The women generally stored the baked bread in the churn. The bread was rapped in fine muslin or white calico to keep it from turning stale. The churn was used as a store room when there was no "chest" or cupbord in the kitchen.

   Nearly every house wife put a cross on the cake before putting it into the oven to bake. The same custom prevails to this

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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