School: Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh
- Location:
- Drumshanbo North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)put into cold water. This keeps the butter from sticking to the strainer. Then the butter is taken off the milk and put into a wooden pail like a basin. It is washed then in cold water. After that salt is added. An implement made of wood and made in the shape of a plate called a "trencher" is got.The butter is mixed with this "trencher" so that the salt will get all through it. Then two other wooden implements called butter spades are got. The butter is sometimes made with them into little balls called "butter balls" or made into bigger lumps called prints.
