School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)well through the butter with little hand beaters.An old proverb about churning is, if you are churning and want a drink you are not to take it or there will never come butter on the milk. You must wait until you are finished, and then take a drink of the butter-milk. Another old one is also, if a stranger comes in to the house and you churning they are supposed to pass the remark good luck to the work and the workman too. Another old saying is, long churning makes bad butter. Butter-milk is used for making bread, and if you take butter-milk and sugar it is good for a bad cold. A real old cure for a cold with all old people was to take butter-milk gruel going to bed. Another old saying is, if a stranger comes in and you churning they are supposed to take a turn of the dash before they go away. If they went away and did not take a turn of the dash they would not be any butter on the butter-milk. Butter-milk is used for baking bread. Butter-milk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dolly Cochrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardrass Lower, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Miss Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardrass Lower, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mrs Cochrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardrass Lower, Co. Kildare
