School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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- Long ago people made butter at home when there was no such thing as creameries.
There were two kinds of churns a standing churn and a barrel churn.
The cows were milked twice a day the milk was brought into the dairy, strained into flat round pans called "keelers". |It was left there for twenty four hours then it was skimmed with a skimer or a saucer or the hand.
The skimmer was like a strainer the milk used to go down through it and the cream remained in the strainer.
The cream used be put into a tub and left there until it was sour which was usually(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
