School: Clonegam, Portlaw (roll number 13901)
- Location:
- Clonagam, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: S. B. Watts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 9
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- Churning
We have a churn at home. It is about four feet high. The sides are round. It is about thirty years old. The various parts are :- the beaters, the handles, the cover, the spicket and the air valve. The is no mark on the side or the bottom. In the Summer the butter is made twice weekly and in Winter once. The men do the churning.
Strangers do not help with the churning.
The churning if put to the proper temperature will take at least from twenty minutes to half an hour.
The churning is done by hands. The churning is made by a rolling motion from side to side.
When the glass is clear of the cream on the end of the churn the butter is made.
The water is only put in the churn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lily Thompson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycahane, Co. Waterford
