School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0300, Page 368
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The way the cream was got from the milk is as follows:- When the milk was got from the cows it was put into shallow earthenware pans and left there for about twenty-four hours, until the cream came to the surface. Then the dairymaid would come with a kind of vessel called a skimmer She would then take the cream from the milk and she would put it into the churn. She would churn about twice a week.
The churning was done in the following manner:- the iron bar was pushed up and down through the cream for a while. The continual(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
