School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0409
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- The way we churn at home is with a machine churn, but there are several other sorts of churns as well. We keep the cream in a milk pan until it is thick.After a few days, we put it into the churn to churn it. It is an old custom with some people to put a coal under the churn so that they would have a good amount of butter.I know an old woman that would not give a coal to a man to light his pipe while the churning is going on.We churn once a week, but we do not practise any of those customs. We put cold water into the churn in Summer, and hot(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Minton
- Gender
- Female
