School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 290
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- 290ChurningWe have a churn at home. It is a barrel churn. It is a number five. The lid is put on by thumb screws. It is five foot and one half.
The sides are round. It is fifteen years old. The different parts are called, the barrel, the lid, the rubber, the handle, ventilator and the stand. The makers name is on the top and bottom of the churn.
The butter is made twice each week in winter and three times each week in summer. Mammy does the churning. It takes fifteen or twenty minutes as we only churn the cream.
The churning is done by hand. You know the butter is made by the glass on the lid of the churn when it is clear. You must raise the temperature of the cream in the winter time before churning. You must draw off the butter milk by a hole that is in the bottom of the churn which is kept cooked when you are churning.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda Donnelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Crossaleeny, Co. Louth
