School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 165
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- In most houses in this district there are big wooden churns.
We have a churn at home it is about sixteen years old and is about three feet in height.
When there a churning to be done we put the cream in the churn. Then we put a staff into the churn there is a lid for it also and in the middle of this lid there is a little round hole and we put the lid down on the staff.
When we start to churn we put some boiling water on the milk to bring it to a certain heat. When the churn is done there are little pieces of on the lid.
We get a tub and scald it. Then we take the butter and put it in the tub. then we wash and mix the butter well, we put some salt on in and put it into nice rolls.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs P. O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
