School: Borris (C.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 491
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- (continued from previous page)Every vessel connected with the milk and butter must be thoroughly clean, scalded and aired. Many well-to-do farmers have a separator i.e. a machine capable of separating the cream from the rest of the milk. The residue milk, separated milk is very poor.
The milk left in the churn i.e. butter-milk is a very [warming ?] drink. It is excellent for making homemade bread and it is given to pigs.
One day a travelling woman asked a farmer's wife in Scorth for a pat of butter. The housewife refused and for a whole year, churn as she might no butter would come on the milk.
In olden days when the butter would not form in the churn, the people of the house believed that neighbours unfriendly to them, had got(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Bresnan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
