School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes are put in a bowl together with flour and a tea spoonful of salt. Then this is well mixed with hands, then it is formed into a cake, and put into a well greased oven, and cooked over a slow fire from three to four hours.
- Long ago people used to make Indian Meal Bread. The way it is made is by putting a mixture of Indian Meal and American flour in a basin. Take three pints of American flour and two pints of Indian Meal a spoonful of salt and a half teaspoon of soda. Mix all up together, then add three pints of butter-milk, mixing all to a thick dough, then put some flour on a bread board, and work for ten minutes and bake for half an hour according to the size.
- People are not allowed to get married in Lent because it is a law of the church. Some people say it is unlucky to get married on a Friday or Saturday, others say it is very lucky to get(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Newman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrylina, Co. an Chabháin
