School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 393
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- (continued from previous page)393.it to a certain degree of heat. If this was not done no butter would come off the milk. In Summer there is no need for hot water. If too much hot water is put in the butter would be very pale. When the milk is churned the churn staff is twisted round slowly to gather the butter in a lump. Then it is lifted out with a butter spade and put into a wooden dish for the use. Then it is well washed to take the buttermilk out of it and is then salted. It is weighed and made up in pounds and put in cold water. Buttermilk and sweetmilk boiled together are very good for a cold. Buttermilk is also good for burns. In Summer we keep the milk in the milk house and in Winter we kept it in the kitchen because the kitchen is warmer. If this was not done the milk would not thicken and it would be no use for churning.
- Collector
- Maria Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Owen Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
