School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 350
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- The churn is a very important instrument in the home of our Irish farmers, it stands about four feet high being of a round shape it is made of dale timber cut in separate pieces or "staves" and girded with iron hoops.
Churning is done twice a week in Summer and once in Winter. Stangers help to churn or take a "brash" as the common is when they visit a house when churning is in progress so that the butter would not become adhesive and stick to their clothes.
This is the way in which a churning is done - all the butter-milk or milk which is left over in the churn is emptied into another vessel for bread-making. Then it is thoroughly scrubbed with a scrub-brush and cold water after which it is rinced and scalded.
Now it is ready for receving the cream, the cream is taken off the milk with a skimmer and drained into a basin from whence it is put into the chain. The milk which remains after the removal of the cream(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Bohan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
