School: Dún Béicín (roll number 14822)
- Location:
- Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Nic Giolla Geanainn
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- People know when butter is made by the taste and colour. My mother pours hot water in during the churning to make the milk more easily churn and to wash down the butter off the sides of the churn.
We have one of the new machine churns. It is like a small barrel. There is a handle attached to it and by twisting this handle, two boards in the form of a cross which are inside the churn revolve and by this means the milk is churned.
This is the way my mother lilts the butter out of the churn. First she takes out all the milk and leaves the butter in the churn. Then she washes the butter three or four times with water in order to get the milk out of it. Then she put salt on the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Hugh Golden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo