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School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)

Location:
Mullen, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
B. Mac Siúrtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 031

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 031

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    scrub the churn up and down straight and then scald it and leave it out for a couple of days to bleach. A churn is generally made of oak. If it is made of any other kind of timber the milk and butter would get bad in it. Before we put milk in a crock we rinse it out. Then we scrub it with salt and pour boiling water on it and leave it out to bleach. We milk the cows twice a day in the morning and at night. We strain the milk while it is warm into a crock to set. We leave it there for a day, then we get a saucer and wash it in boiling water to prevent the cream from fastening to it.
    We take of the cream with
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Breslin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leitrim, Co. Roscommon