Scoil: Cluain Leamhac (Cloonloo) (uimhir rolla 12767)

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1. Churning

   

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   We have a churn at home. It is about
   twenty seven inches high and eighteen inches wide
   at the top. It is a little wider at the bottom. It is
   made of staves of oak joined closely together by hoops.

   In the making of the churn it is make a
   little narrower about nine inches from the top and
   this is called the peck. On one side there is a mark to
   show you how to put on the lid properly.

   The wonam of the house generally makes
   the churning and it is made by hand. The dash is
   worked up and down and when it is near churned the
   dash is twisted around to help to gather the butter. If
   any stranger comes in during the process they take the
   dash afraid they would delay the churning or that you
   would not get the full return of butter. There is very
   little hot water used in summer but it takes a lot
   more in winter to bring the milk to the proper heat.

   When the milk is churned the dash comes up clean
   without any butter on it. We churn three or four
   times a week in summer and about twice in winter.
   When the churning is made the woman that made
   it washes her hands in hot water and then she takes
   off the butter on a trencer then she washes it with

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