School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 170
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- The old "Dash" churns are nearly all done away with in this part of the country. There are new churns of various shapes and sizes. Some with dashes and some without. Some are the shape of a barrel. These by a handle are turned over and over on a frame. There is a glass disc on the lid where it can be seen how the churning is progressing. On this disc small pieces of butter appear but when the churn is quite finished this glass is clean, no pieces adhering to it. Hot water is added to the cream in cold weather to bring it to a temperate of sixty degrees centigrade and in warm weather cold water is added after the butter appears, to keep down the temperature as churning always raises it otherwise the butter would be in a very soft condition.
The churning at a proper temperature should be done in twenty-minutes.
The young maidens in the house usually(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
