In article >, Cookie Cutter
> wrote:

Until recently bread was normally baked in rural Ulster on a griddle
over a turf fire - see "soda bread" and "farl" in wikipedia. Certain
types of bread were hardened by laying them directly on a "har'nin'
stand" - an ornamental iron rack propped in front of the fire (see
http://www.uftm.org.uk/collections_a...ctions/domesti
c_life/

Lazarus