School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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  1. Get your timber dish and little timber spade and scald them.
    Take the butter out of the churn with the spade put it in the dish wash it, salt it wash again with spring water.
    Butter is great for a cold by putting it on hot milk it is also food for a burn be melting it and have it cold and rub it on.
    There are three names for butter margarine creamery butter and home made butter.
    There is butter scotch made out of butter and sugar melt them roll them on a board and let it cool for a while.
    The butter milk wets bread and is given to the calves or pigs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary F. Molloy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway