School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 140
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- We have a churn at home. It is round in shape, two feet high, two feet wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom. It rests on an iron stand placed on the floor.
We churn twice a week in the Summer and once a week in the Winter. All of us take a turn in churning. In the Summer it takes about a quarter of a hour, and about half an hour in the Winter according to the amount of cream to be churned. It is worked by hand and has been eleven or twelve years in use.
There is a pieces of glass about the size of a penny fitted into the lid of the churn, and when this glass is clear we know that the butter has come. If the cream is hard to be churned warm water is added to raise the temperature and so help bring on the butter.
- Collector
- Julia Shortall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Westmeath
