Starch-Making
1. The potatoes are washed and then peeled.
2. Holes are bored in a tin and with the rough side the potatoes are scraped into a vessel.
3 The grated stuff has to be turned into a linen cloth and then wrung into a bowl.
4. The liquid has to be left standing in the bowl over night.
5. Then the liquid has to be turned off and the starch remains in the bottom of the bowl.
This industry is not carried on now. Mrs Kearns Fargureens Balla Co Mayo remembers her mother doing it about 40 years ago.
“COLLECTOR: Margaret Kearns
INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns Age 40 , Manulla, Co. Mayo”
COLLECTOR: Margaret Kearns
INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns Age 40 , Manulla, Co. Mayo