School: Corlatty Carroll
- Location:
- Corr Leacht Uí Chearúill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Jas. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 175
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- Oat meal bread was most commonly used in this country about one hundred years ago.
Some oat meal was got and put in a baisin. A little pinch of salt was added and sometimes sugar was put in also. It was then wet with warm water and mixed until it became a tough dough. The person who was making the bread put the dough on a baking board and kneaded it into the shape of a cake. An iron which was called a grid iron was placed standing before the fire. The dough was left standing against this grid iron and it remained there until it was baked.
- Collector
- Hugh Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Anna, Co. an Chabháin
