School: Boicetown, Dunleer (roll number 843)
- Location:
- Boycetown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: J. Higgins
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out of the churn by the butter-cup, and then put into a butter dish. it is next rinsed to take the milk out of it. Then it is salted and rinsed a few more times to take some of the salt out of it . Next the water is taken off it, and the butter is made into pats and rolls.
There is a proverb about the churning, that when people come into a house and the churning going on they take a "brash" of the churn and wish that "the weight of themselves of butter may be in it. The people drink some of the butter-milk , and it is used for making bread. It is also given to the pigs.
Mary Callan
Port,
Dunleer.
- Collector
- Mary Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Port, Co. Louth
