School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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- Churning.
We have a churn at home. It is two feet high, and one foot wide, at the top and bottom. The sides are round, it is about ten years old.
Butter is made once a week in the Winter, and twice a week in the Summer. My mother does the churning. If strangers come in they say 'God bless the work.' It is the custom to take a dash of the churn. From a quarter to half an hour is the length it takes to churn. The churning is done by hand.
When there are big lumps of butter on the milk, it it churned. There is a wooden bowl for raising up the butter out of the churn. The butter is put into a wooden basin with water in it, and washed with water till the water is clear. Then salt is put in it and it is mixed up. After that the butter is made up into rolls, and put on a plate. The buttermilk is used for making cakes.
- Collector
- Josie Donlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Achadh Buí, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
