School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 6356)
- Location:
- Canbeg, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)lumps on top of the milk. After about ten (of) or fifteen minutes churning if the milk is very cold some boiling water is added. (the dabbler [?]) Then the churndash and the dabbler is washed. The butter is all gathered together and taken out with a butterstrainer. The butter is left on the butterdish. Then salt is added according to the amount of butter. It is made into a roll then with the spade Sometimes a print is left on top and when it is lifted you would see the shape of a robin or whatever shape was on the print on the top of the roll of butter.
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- Máire Ní Scanláin
- Gender
- Female