School: Boicetown, Dunleer (roll number 843)
- Location:
- Boycetown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: J. Higgins
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- Our Churn
Our Churn is six years old, we bought it new and it is like new yet. It measures three feet high, five feet round the top, and five feet nine inches round the bottom. The various of it are, the cup, the dash and the handle. There are no marks on our churn. The butter is made once a week both in Winter and Summer. Mother does the churning. Strangers who come in during the churning help at the work. Because if they went out without helping they would take all the luck off the churn. The churning takes about twenty minutes and it is done by hand. The dash is not always moved upwards and downwards, towards the end it is given a rolling motion from side to side in order to gather the butter together.People know when the churning is done when there are little bits of butter on the milk. Water is poured in during the process in order to break the milk. The butter is lifted out with a small wooden dish. Then it is washed thoroughly to take(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Darby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Salterstown, Co. Louth
