School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Cnoc na gCoileach, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)creamery. We generally churn on Tuesday. The milk is heated to about sixty give degrees with hot water. Then it is churned in about forty minutes by horse churning machine. It is done fairly quickly for the first fifteen minutes.. Then if there is a "break" on it, slower churning will finish it.
The butter will be seperated from in lumps on the "dash". It is then washed with cold spring water, and the butter is taken off the milk with a straner and put into a butter tub where it is made up for use.
Fresh butter milk is said to be as good as medicine for human use.
People don't like lending anything while the churning is being done, and the old "Proverb" is that "long churning makes bad butter".
The milk to be churned was often stored in the bedroom, and, there "thickened" by the warmth of the sleepers, was often in a very unclean condition for churning, and the butter was accordingly not of the purest. but the people concerned did not seem to find anything wrong with this method of storing milk. It is not done nowadays.
- Collector
- Luke Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Charles Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Achadh Draighneach, Co. an Chabháin
