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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 033

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    churning is made the butter tub and butter spades are got and washed and scrubbed with salt. Then they are scalded with boiling water and left out to bleach to prevent the butter from fastening to them. The butter is taken out of the churn with the butter spades. It is then washed a couple of times with cold water and all the buttermilk taken out of it. Then clean salt is got and put in it. It is washed a couple times more and made into a roll. It is left up and it it used according as it is wanted. We use the butter milk to make bread.
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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