School: Druim na dTréad
- Location:
- Drumnatread, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Stondúin
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- (continued from previous page)hot water. It was spread on a bread board in the shape of a cake. It was then baked in front of a clean turf fire. In most places the people made a supply that would do them for a day and in other cases they baked a supply that would do them for a week. Some people thought that if the bread were baked for a length of time it would go further, and that stale bread was healthier.It was the custom for every people to put a cross or squares on the top of the cake. This made the cake nicer in appearance. Some people had the belief that this had something to do in rising the cake. The bread was always baked in an oven and in some cases a pan.Oaten bread was baked in front of a fire by a support called a "gridiron". This gridiron was made out of iron.I can give no account that griddle bread was ever made.On Shrove Tuesday night it was generally the custom for people to bake pancakes for a feast. On Hallow'een boxty bread and boxty dumpling were made.
- Collector
- James Mc Cauley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumnatread, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Cauley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumnatread, Co. an Chabháin
