School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

Location:
Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 097

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 097

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  1. When we want to make butter we first get the milk from the cow. We strain it into very clean well-scalded dairy utensils of either enamel or earthen-ware, in which it sours and thickens before we can churn it to make butter.
    The churn we have is round and we have beaters in it. It is called a "cylinder- churn".
    It holds about four gallons of cream. It is about two and a half feet high.
    It takes from forty minutes to one hour to churn.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Keadeen, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Joseph Byrne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 49
    Address
    Keadeen, Co. Wicklow