School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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- Oat meal bread used in olden times.
Oatmeal met with water and baked on gridiron. Oats grown locally.
Boxty made from raw grated potatoes mixed with cooked potatoes and met with water and boiled in pot of boiling water. Sediment in Boxty water was used as starch.
Querns are still to be found in district.
Pot ovens and gridirons were used for baking.
Bread was baked (oat meal bread) standing against a support in front of fire.
Barm Bread was also made. Barm was made by setting boiled potatoes in covered crock and left till water soured. This liquid was used and met the flour. Cakes rose very high.
Potato Cakes were used very much. Made with cooked potatoes and flour.
Track of five fingers used be put in top of cake to give it plenty of air.
