School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 451
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Everybody present during the operation is expected to take part - however slight - in the work.
A churning of the above kind takes from 40 to 60 minutes to make.
When the butter is made it comes up on the dash. Sometimes water is poured in during the process. Hot water is poured in to hurry it and when it is made, cold water is poured in to gather the butter. The butter is made up in a lump, and then taken out and put in a wooden dish and rinsed or washed until the water comes clear from it. Then all the buttermilk from it. It is then salted and made into prints, or rolls, or packed in a crack.
- Informant
- Mrs Michael Keenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheeane, Co. Roscommon
