School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 56
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- The staff churn is the one mostly used in this part. It takes about an hour to do a churning. When the butter starts to gather on top of the churn the churning is finished. The butter is taken off with the bats. Then it is put into a wooden dish with salt and water in it. The butter is then washed well and then haired. That is a knife is run through it again and again to take away any hairs which might possibly be in it. Then the butter is shaped into prints. The print is a round solid block of wood with the stamp of a cow, a thistle or another flower on it.
A black cow's milk is the best for making butter. The more flowers cows eat the more butter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laetitia Coll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Coll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
