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School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 098

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    that is the side they use. First potatoes are got and cleaned and then scraped and then flour is mixed and bread soda through it and baked it is done. Potatoe cake is made by boiling potatoe's and then they are pelled and they are broken and flour and bread soda is mixed through it and then it is baked. Slap jack is made in a basin or a mug, it is made like a soda cake. Otean bread is made with meal, this is how it is made meal and some sugar is put in a basin and hot water is applied. Then it is cut in four quarters and meal rubbed on it. Then it is put on the grid iorn or the pan and when it is baked it is finished with. Sometimes a small cake is left near a kettle or some support. Soda bread is made with flour and bread soda butter milk, and then they are all mixed and put in the even and a cross put on it and then the lid is put on it and fire put over it and under it. It is said that the cross is put on it, so it would rise up.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Smyth
    Gender
    Male