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1. Churning (continued)

   

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   two rinsings. Then we get the sieve and take the butter on to it with the scup and then take it over to the butter-worker which should be prepared before hand. Then we add 1/4 oz of salt to every lb of butter. Then we roll it with the roller for about ten times, when all the water is out of it. Then we get the scotch-hands and makes it into nice bricks. Old people would not let you bring a gallon with a track of milk to the well, it is supposed that your good luck flows from you, when the milk flows away with the stream.
   Once upon a time simple Kate used to go over to her neighbours house (Mrs Blacks of Bellville) when Mrs Black would be churning, and take a lighted sod out of the fire + bring it home to light her own fire. It was not really the sod she was taking, it was the butter. So a friend told Mrs Black that the next time she would be churning to put a horse-shoe under the churn. So that when the other woman would come in she would have no effect on the butter.
   There was another man who had a big herd of cows. But there was one cow

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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

   Mary Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Dan Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 37

   Address

   Leggagh, Co. Meath