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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 240

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    heat the milk.
    The butter is lifted out of the churn with a butter bowl into a dish and the milk is washed out of it. Then it is salted, and made into rolls with butter bats. There are no local stories connected with churning and butter making. The buttermilk is used for making bread and some of it is given to pigs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Tumulty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonburren, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Whyte
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonburren, Co. Roscommon