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Rough notes by Dr Iorwerth C. Peate - Ref : Traditional methods of baking in Wales. The following paragraph is of interest to quote - "In 1920 when seeking information about baking in the pot near Aberporth, Cardiganshire, I was told that such baking had usually been done outside the cottage on an outcrop of bare rock. The rock would be brushed clean and the pot inverted over the loaves. The fuel heaped around the pot in my informant's immediate neighbourhhood was chiefly furze. Incidentally, it was stated that if the fire were kindled with straw from the same threshing as the grain from which the flour was ground, the bread would be sweeter".