School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 077
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- (continued from previous page)in height and the sides are round. It is about one foot wide at the top and bottom. The parts of the churn are - the beaters, the skimmer and the lid and handle.
The churning is done about thrice in Summer and twice in Winter every week. My mother always does the churning. It takes about twenty minutes to churn. When the butter is made the handle gets very stiff and the milk gets very thick.
Water is always poured into the churn to wash the butter off the sides of the churn.
The butter is lifted out with a wooden plate, salted, and put into a number of rolls.
When anybody comes in during the churning and go out without helping he is to be called back and made help. If he doesn't help it is said they take the butter.
- Collector
- John Burniston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cangort Demesne, Co. Offaly
