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School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)

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Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 57

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 57

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    Butter is taken out in a wooden-dish and butter-spade. The dish, spade, woman’s hands and arms are then scalded and rinsed with cold water. The butter is then lifted out with the hand or the spade into the dish. It is the washed and worked with cold spring water. Then it is salted and washed with cold spring water and clapped about again. It is then left in the dish with water until it is fairly firm. It is weighed and clapped into rolls; it is then ready for use. In the summer it is harder to get firm than in the winter.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Carbery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyhorky, Co. Donegal