School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)

Location:
Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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  1. We have a small hand churn at home. One of my neighbours has a barrel churn. It is made up of the barrel, the stand, the door, and the dashers.
    There is no mark on it. The butter is made once a week in the winter and it is made twice a week in the summer. It is a hand churn. If strangers come into the house when the people of the house are churning they must do some of the churning because it is said if they did not do it the butter would be short the size of their head.
    In summer if the cream is very hot water is put into it. There is a peg in the churn and when the butter is made the peg is pulled and the buttermilk is let out. Then water is put into the churn to wash the butter. When it is done the butter is taken out with butter hands and it is salted.
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