School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 54
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- The churn at home is a small one. It is about 2 feet high and about 2 feet broad at the top. It is about 12 years old.Butter is made once a week in Summer and winter at home. The rest of the milk is sent to the creamery.My mother churns at home. Sometimes when strangers come in, they help to churn. There is an old superstition that any person who came into a house where churning was going on might charm away the butter, if they did not help to churn. Charming it away meant that the people of the house would churn and churn away and not have any butter.It takes about one hour to churn. It is done by hand. The churn-dash is moved upwards and downwards. The butter gathers on the top of the milk when the churning is done.Then the hands are washed very clean(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
