Scoil: Drumkeelanmore (uimhir rolla 12525)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Churning the Milk

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Churning nowadays is not so hard or diffiult a task as it was in our Grandmother's time. At the present day as a rule people only churn once a week just as much cream as is sufficient to produce enough butter for the use of the home each week. Our Grandmothers had a more tedious and severe task in churning.
   First of all it was milk pails were used for collecting the milk, these pails had to be scoured white with sand put on a sand wisp. (no scrubbing brushes then) The hoops on the pails were also polished, it was by the side of some stream this was done. After this the pails were scalded with boiling water then rinsed with cold, and left out int he air for a considerable time. If the churning was not made before the sun got up high the butter wouls be spoiled useless for packing. When the churning was

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
         1. talmhaíocht (~2,659)
            1. im agus cuigne (~3,280)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Ellen Whelan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Droim Ghormáin, Co. Liatroma